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chained_bear commented on the word gingembras
"Typically, these after-dinner spices were candied with sugar and fruit, like the Provencal orengat, fine slices of orange left to soak in sugar syrup for a week or so before being boiled in water, sweetened with honey, and finally cooked with ginger. The convention endured well beyond the medieval period, the candied and jellied fruits served today its direct descendants. Another survivor is gingerbread, which takes its name from the Middle English "gingembras," originally a composition of ginger and other spices. The modern 'bread' bears little resemblance to the original, which was more of a stodgy paste."
--Jack Turner, _Spice: The History of a Temptation_ (NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), 113
More on the association of this baked good with Nuremberg can be found on gingerbread.
December 2, 2016