Vintage tin made by Albert Heijn "Echte Zaanse Koeken"

Vintage tin made by Albert Heijn "Echte Zaanse Koeken".

• Manufacturer: Albert Heijn
• Date of manufacture: 1930 - 1940

Description
The tin is a round high vintage cookie tin for "Real Zaanse cookies" and has a purple and pink background with three images; a Zaanse windmill, a Zaan house and a barge with a coat of arms below.

The tin has a loose lid and the letters 'Albert Heijn' are printed in the bottom.

Condition
These tins for Zaanse biscuits from Albert Heijn are in a vintage condition with traces of use and age-related traces of wear. Photos are part of description.

Size

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

A cookie is a delicacy, baked from dough, eggs, sugar and any other ingredients. The structure is firm, brown in colour and it sometimes contains pieces of candied peel, nuts and raisins. A cookie is not seen as cake, as by the use of cake as a gingerbread.

In the Netherlands, different types of cookies are baked. The diminutive biscuit is used for all kinds of small "pastries" to go with the coffee.

A person who bakes cookies is a baker. However, after the Dutch expression "een rare koekenbakker" (a weird cookies baker), the word cookie baker is usually used metaphorically in the Dutch language, for someone who has not done something so cleverly and is rather clumsily.

"Billenkoek" (a spanking cookie) is not a cookie, but a spanking on someone's buttocks. "Lariekoek" is what someone says but isn't true, just like gossip. "Kletskopjes" (talking heads), on the other hand, are cookies.

Cookies are so popular that the use of the word has been taken to the United Kingdom and to the United States. The English cookie is derived from the Dutch 'Koekie'.

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