A Very Chimerical Speculoos Mold

Agreed for inventiveness when you were a pastry chef, you had to stand out… In Belgium, a specialty was (and still is) speculoos, a biscuit with brown sugar and spices (anise, cloves, nutmeg, ginger). A gourmet delight that has no equal with a good coffee and which goes very well with the holidays of the calendar (Christmas, St. Nicholas, Easter…). But what pushed this craftsman to make a mold of a fish that does not exist and which has the courage to measure 90 cm long…. I imagine the face of the child who, unwrapping his treat, finds himself face to face with a biscuit that could be as big as him… Superb object of folk art, monoxyl. 19th century.