Talk:Gingerbread

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Having ginger cake redirect here was put forth for Redirects for discussion. The result of was , i.e. to leave things as they are. The discussion for this redirect can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2011_July_23#Ginger_cake

As is clear from that, is in the "Redirects for discussion" on July 23 2011.

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Russian gingerbread?
Gingerbread is considered to be a traditional sweet in Russia, and is extremely wide-spread there. It would make sense to reflect that in the article. --Humanophage (talk) 15:54, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

This page was a bit of a muddle, basically because it seems different countries use "gingerbread" to mean different things. I have tried to sort it out - apologies if I have got anyone's normal usage wrong as a result. We could now do with some references to recipe books to support many of the statements. seglea (talk) 23:23, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Ginger cake should not redirect here
Ginger cake is quite different to gingerbread and should not redirect here. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 19:57, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

All right, the article does say that gingerbread can be soft cake, but I have always thought that that was ginger cake and that gingerbread is hard, being rather similar to a ginger nut biscuit. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 10:40, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

Explanation for last comment
Gingerbread is more like a biscuit,which is often made into shapes - such as the famous gingerbread man. Ginger cake, which has a darker colour, is more like a sponge cake. Ergo, we should not get redirected here if we type "ginger cake".ACEOREVIVED (talk) 22:44, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

It would be more sensible if typing "ginger cake" redirected to McVitie's, who make the ginger cakes - although I am well aware that Wikipedia should avoid advertisments. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 00:00, 21 July 2011 (UTC)ACEOREVIVED (talk) 21:28, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

What you say may be true in your experience at this point in time, but is not generally true. I did not work on the article, but it reflects what I have read about gingerbread in a couple historical cookbooks. (In fact the cake form seems more common in early 1900's under the title "gingerbread.")It is certainly true that the term "gingerbread" refers to either. I also just looked up Mirriam Webster and OED definitions of "gingerbread," both of which list the cake form first and the shaped biscuit/cookie second. 131.238.213.46 (talk) 19:06, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

The redirect question
Some time ago, I suggested that ginger cake redirecting here should go in Redirects for discussion. Even if my proposal were defeated, should the fact that it was made be mentioned here? ACEOREVIVED (talk) 15:53, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Looks as if my proposal had been deleted, and I have now put up a tag indicating that the suggestion for having this as a "Redirect for Discussion" was defeated. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 21:21, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

Copyediting question
This is a minor question concerning syntactical propriety. Cementing an absolute answer for me will be useful in the future, however, so I welcome your advice.

When this article makes mention of this first monk, is it proper to end any and all years mentioned within his lifetime with 'AD', or 'BCE'? I know it's quite obvious just which era it is, given that he's a christian monk, but should we include it, irrespective of that?


 * Definitely not BCE which is "Before the Common Era" or "BC". The question is whether AD or CE or neither should be used. Personally I think that neither is required in this case. There is no real likelihood of people thinking it is BCE. Dabbler (talk) 20:52, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

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