Set of two vintage tin tins for Albert Heijn "Echte Zaanse Koeken"

Set of two vintage tin tins for Albert Heijn "Echte Zaanse Koeken".

• Manufacturer: Albert Heijn
• Manufacturing date: 1930 - 1940

Description
One tin is a round high light-coloured vintage biscuit tin for "Echte Zaanse Koeken" with three images; a Zaan windmill, a couple in traditional costume and a Zaan house. Flower decoration in the blue border.

The other tin is also round and high and has a purple and pink background with three images; a Zaan windmill, a Zaans house and a barge with a weapon below.

Both tins have a separate lid and have the letters 'Albert Heijn' printed in the bottom.

Condition
these tins for Zaanse biscuits by Albert Heijn are in a vintage condition with traces of use and age-related traces of wear. Pictures are part of the description.

Size

• Height: 15.5 cm.
• Diameter: 8.5 cm.

A cookie is a baked or cooked food that is typically small, flat and sweet. It usually contains flour, sugar and some type of oil or fat. It may include other ingredients such as raisins, oats, chocolate chips, nuts, etc.

In most English-speaking countries except for the United States, crunchy cookies are called biscuits. Many Canadians also use this term. Chewier biscuits are sometimes called cookies even in the United Kingdom. Some cookies may also be named by their shape, such as date squares or bars.

Biscuit or cookie variants include sandwich biscuits, such as custard creams, Jammie Dodgers, Bourbons and Oreos, with marshmallow or jam filling and sometimes dipped in chocolate or another sweet coating. 

The word dates from at least 1701 in Scottish usage where the word meant "plain bun", rather than thin baked good, and so it is not certain whether it is the same word. From 1808, the word "cookie" is attested "...in the sense of "small, flat, sweet cake" in American English. The American use is derived from Dutch koekje "little cake," which is a diminutive of "koek" ("cake"), which came from the Middle Dutch word "koke". Another claim is that the American name derives from the Dutch word koekje or more precisely its informal, dialect variant koekie which means little cake, and arrived in American English with the Dutch settlement of New Netherland, in the early 1600s.

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