Vintage cookie tin for speculaas by De Spar

Vintage cookie tin for speculaas by De Spar.

Description
Rectangular tin drum fitted with a hinged lid. This tin is decorated with a green background with light yellow/beige surfaces. The images on this tin are in dark brown and concern old speculaas shapes or cookie molds.

Among other images of a man and woman, horse and cart, boat and swan. The logo De Spar is embossed at the bottom of the tin.

Condition
This cookie tin by De Spar is in a good vintage condition with normal traces of use and age-related traces of wear.

Size

• Height: 8 cm.
• Length: 19 cm.
• Width: 12 cm.

Speculaas mold - Cookie mold
Cookie molds were cut by the bakers. These so-called cookie boards have a cut-out image with which cookies could be produced.

Wood was used to produce a cookie board. A cookie of a fixed volume had to be cut into this because the cookies had to have a fixed weight. The basic shape was first cut to get the volume needed, after which was continued with the finer work, which meant hardly any extra volume.

A number of logical requirements were set for the wood that could be used, such as workability, strength and, in addition, the wood must be sealed. Because pine contains a relatively large amount of resin, for example, it could not be used, because that taste would then be absorbed. For example, ash, teak, and walnut could be used very well.

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