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Cookie Press
- Description
- Rectangular wooden cookie press with 16 sets of carved figures (squirrel, bird, windmill, etc.). Each cutout has been painted decoratively with a different colour (blue, yellow, red, etc.).
- Title
- Speculaas
- Other Names
- cookie cutter
- biscuit press
- cookie mold
- Category
- TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT FOR MATERIALS
- Sub-Category
- FOOD PROCESSING TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT
- Description
- Rectangular wooden cookie press with 16 sets of carved figures (squirrel, bird, windmill, etc.). Each cutout has been painted decoratively with a different colour (blue, yellow, red, etc.).
- History Of Use
- Cookie presses such as this one were used to make Speculaas, a traditional cookie made for St. Nicholas Day in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany.
- Width
- 11
- Length
- 67
- Units Of Measurement
- Centimeters
- Accession No.
- 2018.17.1
- Type of Record
- Museum Artifact
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