This superb house will look so good on your table that your guests won't dare break it to eat it! Cookies: Beat sugar with soft butter until creamy. Add egg and beat again. Add the flour, salt, cinnamon and ginger and knead the dough until smooth.

Although versions of gingerbread date to ancient Egypt and Greece, the cookie we eat today has its roots in the Middle Ages, when cakes became all

Entries at the Franklin Park Conservatory's annual contest and professionals offer gingerbread house ideas. Or you can buy a pretty good prefab kit.