1To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 22 September 1808 (Adams Papers)
. The disputes of children about their nuts & gingerbread have less folly and wickedness in them.
2To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 19 March 1789 (Adams Papers)
...suffer themselves to be seduced by the gingerbread-nuts—and baby house which they have...
3Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 31 October 1799 (Adams Papers)
...The first U.S. edition of the Giles Gingerbread stories was John Newbery, The Renowned History...
4To Benjamin Franklin from ———: a Memorandum, [December? 1776] (Franklin Papers)
...in dealing with foreigners, and “one may take the Gingerbread for the Baker.”
5Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 18 August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
particularly, with gingerbread which she will prefer to them.
6From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 21 January 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
...make big promises, which I know a bit of gingerbread will pay off. kiss them all for me....
7To Thomas Jefferson from David Austin, 4 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...will be apt to say, that the gingerbread stile of your Excelly’s Instructions,...
8From Alexander Hamilton to Colonel Charles Stewart, 5 September 1777 (Hamilton Papers)
...German baker—and specialist in fancy gingerbread—Christopher Ludwick, who, as “Baker...
9To George Washington from Brigadier General Hugh Mercer, 19 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
...armies before establishing himself as a gingerbread baker at Philadelphia in 1754,...
10General Orders, 28 March 1780 (Washington Papers)
...extra crispness. Potash was used in German gingerbread recipes. A account of Ludwick’s...