Traditional activities for celebrating Christmas, Yule, and the Winter Solstice like making gingerbread. The oldest known recipe for gingerbread is over 5,000 years old from ancient Greece, and there is evidence that gingerbread was used for ceremonial purposes for both the Egyptians and the Greeks. It spread through Italy and was popular at Saturnalia celebrations where they made human-shaped cookies out of it as a nod to earlier human sacrifices at the events....