Food
BELGIUM
Speculoos
by Bryan
The speculoos is THE belgian biscuit. It’s
a dainty made with butter, brown
sugar,cinnamon, flour and a lot of secrets
ingredients.
The speculoos knows a great come back
in the 14e century where he recieve the
form of saint nicholas, the protector of
the childrens.
Saint nicholas :
Nowadays, we celebrate
saint nicholas the 6
decembre, just befor
christmas and the
childrens recieve
speculoos and mandarins.
Wher you can buy it :
Where does the name speculoos
come from ?
There are many hypothesis. Two of them
are : We think that the name come from
the latin’s language. It would come from
the latin’s word « species » wich means
« spices » in English. It can also come
from the word « speculum » wich means
« mirror ». It’s possible because the
biscuit is has the form of a know
personnage, saint nicholas.
History of the speculoos :
During the antiquity the speculoos was
offer to the sage childs. The recept cames
in the belgians regions during the
Roman’s conquests around the years
100-50 ACN
You can find the standard speculoos,
made in factorie in all of the
supermarkets of belgium, but the best,
the artisanal speculoos, you can find it
only in the centrum of brussel, in some
little traditional shops like ” The Dandoy’s
house” and of course, you can do it by
yourself.
The Recipe
500gr flour
375gr brown sugar
250gr butter
½ tbsp cinnamon
1 tbsp spices (ginger, nutmeg etc)
2 eggs
100gr almonds (powder)