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Fairytale "GingerBread Man"

An old woman was baking one day and she made some gingerbread. She had some dough left over and she made the shape of a little man. She made eyes for him, a rose and a smiling mouth, all of currants and placed some more down his front to look like buttons. Then she laid him on a baking tray and put him in the oven to bake.

After a little while, she heard something rattling at the oven door. She opened it and to her surprise out jumped the little Gingerbread man she had made. She tried to catch him as he ran across the kitchen but he slipped past her, calling as he ran:

'Run, run as fast as you can. You can’t catch me. I’m the Gingerbread man.'

She chased after him into the garden where her husband was digging. He put down his spade and tried to catch him too but as the Gingerbread man sped past him he called over his shoulder:

'Run, run as fast as you can. You can’t catch me. I’m the Gingerbread man.'

As he ran past the road, he passed a cow. The cow called out: “Stop Gingerbread man. You look good to eat!” But the gingerbread man laughed and shouted over his shoulder ran:

'I’ve run from an old woman and an old man. Run, run as fast as you can. You can’t catch me. I’m the Gingerbread man.'

The cow ran after the old woman and the old man and soon they all passed a horse. “Stop!” called out the horse, 'I’d like to eat you!'

But the Gingerbread man called out:

'I’ve run from an old woman and an old man and a cow Run, run as fast as you can. You can’t catch me. I’m the Gingerbread man. '

He ran on with the old woman and the old man and the cow and the horse following. And he went past a party of people hay making. They all looked up as they saw the Gingerbread man and as he passed them he called out:

'I’ve run from an old woman and an old man. Run, run as fast as you can. You can’t catch me. I’m the Gingerbread man.

The hay makers joined in the chase, behind the old woman and the old man and the cow and the horse and they all followed him as he ran through the fields. There he met a fox. So he called out to the fox:

'I’ve run from an old woman and an old man. Run, run as fast as you can. You can’t catch me. I’m the Gingerbread man.'

But the sly fox said: 'why should I bother to catch you (although he thought to himself: that Gingerbread man would be good to eat.) Just after he had run past the fox, the Gingerbread man had to stop, because he came to a wild deep swift flowing river. The fox saw the old woman and the old man and the cow and the horse and the hay makers all chasing the Gingerbread man. So he said:

'Jump on my back and I’ll take you across the river'.

The Gingerbread man jumped on the fox’s back and the fox began to swim. As they reached the middle of the river, where the water was deep, the fox said:

'Can you stand on my head Gingerbread man or you will get wet.'

So the Gingerbread man pulled himself up and stood on the fox’s head. As the current flowed more swiftly, the fox said:

'Can you move onto my nose Gingerbread man, so I can carry you more safely? I would not like you to drown. '

The Gingerbread man slid onto the fox’s nose, but when he reached the bank of the river, the fox suddenly went « snap! ». The Gingerbread man disappeared into the fox’s mouth and was never seen again.

Christmas Craft: Christmas tree with buttons

First, you must make a cardboard cone size as you want to your Christmas tree.

Second, paste one by one the colored buttons on the tree. You can glue some buttons on top of other to give volume.

Ready! You already have a Christmas tree fun and original for your home decorating.

Christmas Recipe

Ingredients:

-       250 grams of sugar.

-       Butter 200 grams.

-       2 eggs.

-       500 grams of flour.

-       Green food coloring.

-       M & M’s

Preparation:

Mix the sugar and butter until well linked. Add eggs and mix again.

Add the flour and mix well until blended well into the batter.

Add the green food coloring and knead again until the dough is of the desired color.

Cut the dough into stars and bake at 180 degrees.

Let cookies cool on a rack and mount the tree starting with the largest star to the smallest.

Garnish with a little icing sugar and M & M’s to simulate Christmas ornaments.