Tula gingerbread is a type of printed gingerbread from the city of Tula, the most famous kind of Russian gingerbreads.
Usually the Tula gingerbread look like a rectangular tile or a flat figure. Modern Tula gingerbreads usually contain jam or condensed milk, while in the old times they were made with honey.
Gingerbreads are known in Tula since 17th century. The first mention of the Tula gingerbread is in Tula сensus book of 1685.[1]
There is a museum called «Tula gingerbread», opened in Tula in 1996.[2]
Today Tula gingerbreads are made at confectionery factories «Staraya Tula» (Old Tula) and «Yasnaya Polyana» (Yasnaya Polyana), and also by several small companies.
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