Vintage orange tin with golden piping for rusk

Vintage orange tin with golden piping for rusk.

• Manufacturer: unknown
• Manufacturing date: 1920 - 1970

Beautiful old tin for rusks, cookies or biscuits.

Description
Rectangular biscuit tin with a hinged lid with two hanging hinges with loose lips. Rolled edge on the lid and at the bottom of the tin.

The decoration of this tin consists of an orange background with gold coloured piping. Text on the lid: RUSK.

Condition
This tin is in a vintage condition with traces of use and age-related traces of wear. Pictures are part of the description.

Dimensions

• Height: 13.0 cm.
• Length: 23.7 cm.
• Width: 14.0 cm.

Beschuit, also known as Dutch crispbakes, are light, round, rather crumbly, rusks as eaten in the Netherlands and Belgium. When a baby is born in The Netherlands, it is customary to serve beschuit met muisjes (with "little mice", which are aniseeds covered in a white and pink or blue sugar layer, depending on the newborn's gender). Beschuiten are also eaten as a breakfast food with a variety of toppings, most commonly butter and sprinkles in flavours such as chocolate (chocoladehagel or chocoladevlokken) or fruit (vruchtenhagel), jam or cheese. A longtime Dutch favourite is to serve strawberries on beschuit, which is usually topped with some sugar or whipped cream.

Beschuiten are made by first baking a flat round bread (beschuitbol), slicing it in half, and then baking each half again, usually at a lower heat. It is almost always sold in rolls; a roll typically has 13 rusks (a baker's dozen). Etymologically, biscotto (16th-century Italian), biscuit (19th century, from 16th-century bisket) and beschuit come from the Latin phrase (panis) bis-coctus, (bread, twice cooked).

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