Did you know today was World Baking Day? World Baking Day is all about sharing the joy of baking cakes, and what better way to share the love than #caking!
I have been very busy baking but I wanted to share this vintage Nutbrown Party Time Cutter Gingerbread Man. I love the original packaging which proudly says “For use in making super Gingerbread Biscuits, highly popular with young people”. Eek, that makes me feel old!
The cutter was made in England by Thos. M. Nutbrown Ltd and the cover shows a freaky gingerbread man with scary eyes, buttons and belt made from coloured sweets. I’m surprised anyone would want to eat a biscuit looking like that!
The back of the card contains a recipe for gingerbread. I’m presuming it must be out of copyright so I’ve included it here:
- 4oz butter
- 4oz sugar
- 9oz flour (plain presumably)
- 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1-2 tsps ground ginger
- warmed syrup
I made some biscuits using this recipe but they weren’t very successful. As the quantity of syrup wasn’t listed I used golden syrup and just kept adding it in the mixing bowl as the dough refused to come together. As a result the biscuits were very crunchy and not that nice. I think I’ll stick to my tried and tested gingerbread recipe.
Linking up with flea market finds, magpie monday and thrift share monday
20 Comments
Liz Burton
May 21, 2012 at 11:00 amHaha “highly popular with young people” That’s brilliant!
Great find x
jenny
May 21, 2012 at 10:06 pmClearly written before the internet was invented!
Lakota [Faith hope and Charity Shopping]
May 21, 2012 at 11:14 amThose young people eh, always listening to their pop radio and munching gingerbread inside their hoodies…
Lulastic
May 21, 2012 at 12:42 pmAh, am so glad you called him freaky as my first response was “ooh, he is a leetle creepy”.
I love it though- good work!
jenny
May 21, 2012 at 10:18 pmHee hee, definitely creepy! Thanks for visiting 🙂
Ruth @ Minibreak Mummy
May 21, 2012 at 2:19 pmYes that is a scary photo! A great additional to your gingerbread collection though 🙂
jenny
May 21, 2012 at 10:22 pmI love collecting cutters and it’s a nice feeling to try the vintage ones too 🙂
Claire Toplis
May 21, 2012 at 2:47 pmJeez run run as fast as you can’t you can’t catch the ginger bread man .. arghhh
jenny
May 21, 2012 at 10:27 pmI never realised he was scary, I always thought gingerbreadmen were cute!
Jane
May 21, 2012 at 4:54 pmDeffo a creepy looking gingerbreadman hehe
Great find though x
Cheapchick
May 21, 2012 at 5:19 pmYou are right, he looks kind of scary on the packaging. The shape could also be for a clown in you wanted to change things up a bit.
jenny
May 21, 2012 at 10:40 pmOoh that’s a great idea. Thanks for the suggestion!
Amanda
May 21, 2012 at 6:06 pmOh I love it! Real kitch, but in a good way!
jenny
May 21, 2012 at 10:41 pmYay, I love kitch!!
karen jones
May 21, 2012 at 6:56 pmerm , is it just me or does he look like he has a willy ???
jenny
May 21, 2012 at 10:42 pmYou’re the first to suggest that. I didn’t see it before but I can’t stop seeing it now!!!
mummylish
May 21, 2012 at 8:39 pmHow cool! Love the shape of him 🙂 Shame the recipe wasn’t so yummy, I’m going to check yours out now! My little one loves the story of the gingerbread man.
jenny
May 21, 2012 at 10:44 pmMy toddler loves it too, especially when we act it out with an edible gingerbread man!
Coombemill - Fiona
May 23, 2012 at 12:06 pmWhat a wonderful find. Children just adore Gingerbread men. Thank you for the old recipe too!
jenny
May 23, 2012 at 2:25 pmMy son (and husband) love it as much as I do – although I do bake other things too 🙂