1.   Another difference between this gingerbread recipe and most others is that I left out cloves, mace and nutmeg.

2.   Back home, I dug through yellowed and aging cookbooks without spotting a gingerbread recipe that seemed likely to produce a house that would stay upright.

3.   Today, American gingerbread recipes still differ from region to region.

4.   We needed a gingerbread recipe to put on the menu, and to serve at one of his famous, over-the-top holiday parties.