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small speculaas using a 4 x 6 cm cutter, wooden mould or stampMedium
Published 2023
Once butter came into the mix and sugar replaced honey, tough peperkoek and honey cakes like the couque de Dinant, Lebkuchen, printen and taai-taai got a new sibling in speculaas or speculatie (Spekulatius in German). The origin of the name is unclear, but etymologists have two theories. One is that it comes from ‘speculum’, being Latin for mirror-image, because the finished printed koek is the mirror image of the carved mould, which o
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