Vintage tin Rademaker's Haagse Hopjes

Vintage tin Rademaker's Haagse Hopjes. 

Description
Rectangular tin with paper wrap and equipped with an oval inserted lid. The decoration of this tin consists of a red paper wrapper with three wide gold-colored borders.

Rademaker's Haagse Hopjes.

Text in four languages; Dutch, German, French and English: De eenige echte, Die einzig echten, Les seuls véritables, The only genuine. Furthermore the texts: Kaffee bonbons, Bonbons au café and Coffee candies.

On the sides the Rademaker's logo in black and yellow and the stork from The Hague. Text: These are the original Rademaker's Haagse Hopjes since 1875.

Condition
This tin is in a vintage condition with traces of use and age-related traces of wear.

Size

• Height: 11.5 cm.
• Length: 8.3 cm.
• Width: 5.5 cm.

Hopjes also referred to as Haagsche Hopjes, (hopjes from The Hague) are a type of Dutch sweets with a slight coffee and caramel flavour that originated in the 18th century.

The hopje is named after Baron Hendrik Hop who was recalled as an envoy in Brussels when the French invaded Belgium in 1792. He moved into rooms above the confectioners Van Haaren & Nieuwerkerk. He was addicted to coffee and the story goes that one night he left his coffee with sugar and cream on the heater, where it evaporated. On tasting the resulting substance, he loved it. His doctor advised him not to drink coffee so he asked the confectioner Theodorus van Haaren to make him some "lumps of coffee". After some experimenting, Van Haaren created a sweet made of coffee, caramel, cream and butter. The enthusiastic Baron Hop was keen to let his guests try his 'Hopjes', which quickly gained popularity. Van Haaren's successor eventually even got orders from abroad.

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