The Gingerbread Shop

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Introduction
Although decorated with candy canes, of all the 20th Anniversary gingerbread offerings this probably looks most like a shop. And it really is the perfect building to buy from ...

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Hazle Ceramics
Gingerbread Shop
Limited Painting of 20
on Windsor Crooked House

 Mrs Sarah Nelson & her trademark wrapping.

20th Anniversary 2010
Painted by Michele Bland

 Timber-framed Market Cross House was built as a butcher shop in 1718. Its crooked appearance is thought to be due to structural alterations during the 1700s. The stone cross in front of the cafe marks the medieval market place.

UK/Europe £69.50
Rest of World £60.43

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Chefs describe the Grasmere Gingerbread as “a fantastic explosion of taste”, “utterly unique” and “wickedly chewy”. TV ‘Naked Chef’ Jamie Oliver desires the secret recipe but it is locked in a bank vault! 

Gingerbread Tasters
From a soft cake to almost a ginger biscuit, this sweet food usually has molasses and spices. Brought to Europe in 992 AD by Armenian monk Gregory Makar, it became widely available by the 1700s. Across the world there are many types and traditions, with a special link to Christmas in the US. The UK’s most famous gingerbread shop is in Grasmere, once home to poet Wordsworth. In 1850 Sarah Nelson moved to Gate Cottage, a former school. A local French chef inspired her to make gingerbread. Huge success took her family out of poverty.

Inside the Grasmere Gingerbread shop today. 