The gingerbread, or pampepato, is a sweet of roundish (or nugget-like) shape, typical of Terni and Ferrara. It is composed according to tradition by various ingredients: almonds, hazelnuts, pine nuts, pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg, orange and citron candied, raisins, all mixed with or without cocoa, chocolate, coffee, liqueur, honey, flour, grape must. The dessert is then baked in the oven (better if in a wood-burning oven). It is usually eaten as a Christmas dessert. It is prepared in each family with recipes that differ slightly from each other.