“Hansel reached up and broke off a little of the roof, to see how it tasted, and Gretel went up to the windowpane and nibbled on it. Then a shrill voice called out from inside the house: ‘Nibble, nibble, little mouse, who is nibbling at my house?’”

Everyone remembers the first time they listened, wide-eyed, to the story of Hansel and Gretel. And, despite the cannibalistic witch, and the glossed-over destitution, and the irresponsible parents, all we really remember it for is that iconic sweet-studded gingerbread house.

Even now, as fully fledged adults, we find our mouths watering as we remember the moment the lost children stumbled across the spicy biscuit cottage and began nibbling away at the chimneys, door handles, and window-panes. Even now, we wonder what it would have tasted like.

Yet there has always been one crucial thing missing from the story. And that one thing, as always, is gin.

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