It was first lady Patricia Nixon who first put a gingerbread house on display in the State Dining Room for the holidays.
Each ornament comes with a booklet on the history of that particular presidency, and this year’s is gingerbread-scented. for thousands of tourists and guests attending holiday receptions weighs 300 pounds and includes a sugar cookie replica of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, in keeping with first lady Jill Biden’s theme of “We the People.”
“Chef Raffert’s Gingerbread Houses were a precious A-framed house that in later years began to add some special touches to reflect the current first family,” such as jelly beans, representing President Ronald Reagan’s favorite candy, or replicas of the family’s pets, wrote Jennifer Pickens, author of a book about Christmas at the White House.
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