The gingerbread house traces its origins to 18th-century Germany. Tatiana Gordievskaia/ Shutterstock No confectionery symbolises the holidays quite like gingerbread.

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The gingerbread house traces its origins to 18th-century Germany. Tatiana Gordievskaia/ Shutterstock No confectionery symbolises the holidays quite like gingerbread.