Grasmere Gingerbread
After my visit to Dove Cottage I walked through Grasmere to look for the Grasmere Gingerbread Shop at the suggestion of a friend. I’m so glad I heeded her suggestion, because though I’d never heard of it before, Grasmere Gingerbread is quite famous. It’s texture was not quite a biscuit (in the British sense of the word) and not quite cake; it was somewhere in the middle and just right. This secret recipe by Sarah Nelson has been baked and sold in Grasmere since the 1850s (though an excerpt from Dorothy Wordsworth’s journal, Home at Grasmere*, does mention her walking to town to buy some gingerbread in 1802). It has the perfect strength of ginger spiciness. I ate mine while strolling through the Wordsworth Daffodil Garden, which I highly recommend. But if you can’t make it to Grasmere anytime soon, the Gingerbread shop ships worldwide! They even have gingerbread subscriptions! You can gift yourself or a loved one with a year-long subscription to Grasmere Gingerbread, which is an absolutely brilliant idea.
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