Vintage oblong 1950s gingerbread tin

Vintage oblong 1950s gingerbread tin.

• Date of manufacture: 1950s

Description
Elongated rectangular tin for gingerbread or gingerbread. This tin is provided with a hinged lid. The decoration of this tin is made from a black background with stylistic figures in orange-red and gold.

Both the lid and the can have a rolled edge. The tin has rounded corners and has a vertical longitudinal seam at one of the corners. Inside and bottom of the tin are golden. Bottom with raised edge.

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

Size

• Height: 9.5 cm.
• Length: 28.5 cm.
• Width: 10.5 cm.

Gingerbread refers to a broad category of baked goods, typically flavoured with ginger, cloves, nutmeg or cinnamon and sweetened with honey, sugar or molasses. Gingerbread foods vary, ranging from a soft, moist loaf cake to something close to a ginger snap.

Originally, the term gingerbread (from Latin zingiber via Old French gingebras) referred to preserved ginger. It then referred to a confection made with honey and spices. Gingerbread is often used to translate the French term pain d'épices (literally "spice bread") or the German terms Pfefferkuchen (lit. "pepper cake") or Lebkuchen.

An ontbijtkoek (literally translated breakfast cake) or peperkoek (pepper cake) is a Dutch and Flemish spiced cake. Rye is its most important ingredient, coloring the cake light brown. It is often spiced with cloves, cinnamon, ginger, succade and nutmeg. Several parts of the Netherlands have their own local recipe, of which the most famous is oudewijvenkoek (old woman's cake), which is mostly eaten in the northern regions, and is flavored with aniseed. Ontbijtkoek is traditionally served at breakfast with a thick layer of butter on top, as a replacement for bread, however, due to its sweet taste it is also served as a snack. It is best eaten the day after it is baked.

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