Pain d’épices

Name: Pain d’épices
Prep time: 50 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 1 h 40 min
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 170 ml of water; 250 grams of real honey (flower honey); 250 grams of rye flour; 50 grams of brown sugar; 1 tsp of bicarbonate / baking soda; 1/2 tsp of salt; 1 tsp of ground cinnamon; 1 tsp of ground ginger; 1 tsp of ground anise; 1/2 tsp of ground cloves; 1/2 tsp of ground nutmeg

Instructions

Prep:50minCook:50min

Considered to be the original pain d’epices, it is made with dark rye flour, honey and spices without the addition of milk and eggs. Many new adaptations of the recipe add these ingredients, as well as a bit of olive oil and a variety of fruits and nuts. According to the Encyclopédie méthodique. Arts et métiers mécaniques. Tome 5 in 1778: Reims pan d’epices used three kinds of honey, white honey or prairie, honey bâtard and buckwheat honey. From the 19th century, honey from Champagne was replaced with honey from Brittany and some factories even started to use molasses. This recipe is adapted from the blog The Arrogant Pug.

Updated at: Tue, 08 Feb 2022 08:06:29 GMT