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Who knew that the same root could be a cause and cure for indigestion?

Her home business, baking gourmet gingerbread for the likes of Oprah Winfrey and Opryland guests, is in shambles, and her home’s flood insurance won’t cover the baking business. And Christmas is coming. “I’m wiped out,” she said, smiling bravely …

And gingerbread, cupcakes, snickerdoodles, brownies, haystacks, peanut butter cookies, butter pecan…” She plans another baking spree for the sale in two weeks. “It’s a community that really pulls together,” she said. Overmyer was …

Baking is a huge deal in Linda Bristol’s family.

What better way to celebrate the holiday season than by creating a festive — and edible — holiday decoration that has been a Christmas tradition for centuries: a gingerbread house! If your baking skills are less than stellar, have no fear. Alex …

Oblaten Lebkuchen : Oblatens are the thin communion-like wafers on which the dough is baked in Germany. This was done historically (originally by the medieval monks) to prevent the cookie from sticking to the baking pan. A sort of edible parchment …

Geraldine Schafer, left, of Slatington, provides baking tips and instructions on how to make pastries, gingerbread houses, and other baking delights to the Tamaqua Salvation Army Older and Bolder Senior Group during its Halloween Party. Some of …

For some, baking a cake means buying a box mix and some prepared frosting and assembling. For others, running down to the local grocery store bakery and picking up a store-bought cake is all of the baking they will do

Bella Moto Baking , 916 Mass. Ave., is participating in “First Thursday” on Nov