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Pain d’epices or literally Spice bread is a cakey quick bread from France and is also known aas French Gingerbread or Honey spice cake. The traditional spice bread is made using rye flour ,honey and spices like aniseed. But modern spice bread makes use of ginger. The bread which was based on the fermentation of rye flour in buckwheat honey traditionally used no leavening agent,but modern day bakers use soda or baking powder which makes it rise quickly. I found an excellent recipe for this (...)