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Gingerbread houses may have first appeared in Germany as early as the 1600s. However, their popularity increased after the Brothers Grimm published “Hansel and Gretel” in 1812, a fairy tale about two hungry children who happen upon a witch’s cottage “built of bread and covered…
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