I recently brought my daughter a "goodie bag" of Christmas treats I had found at a nearby European grocery store. Among them was a package of "oblate cookies" - soft ginger cookies with a white base, that I started buying some Christmases ago. They are apparently a European Christmas treat that dates back to medieval days.
The white base looks like a communian wafer, my daughter commented.
It is, I replied. I looked it up once and even wrote a blog about it... But now I don't remember why monks started using wafers as the base. I'll google it again...
So I did - and (to my surprise) up popped my original blog about the cookies: dated November 27, 2015!
As for the answer: one year monks were having a problem with their gingerbread cookies sticking to the pan. So communion wafers to the rescue! And a new tradition began!
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