Hanze-museum De Leeuw: cake moulds above the sweet shop
At Hotel De Leeuw, cake moulds, coffee grinders, baking tins and canisters are combined with a sweet shop and a café.
Giving a cake a picture
Cake moulds press a relief into the dough. Look at the depth, the mirror image and the wear, and ask what occasion or figure a mould was made for.
Grinding at the table or on your lap
Wall-mounted and lap coffee grinders show different ways of holding and catching the grounds. Compare the mechanism and ergonomics without automatically linking every example to Deventer.
Moulds and packaging
Chocolate and marzipan moulds, tins and shop wares follow food from making to selling. See how decoration makes both the product and the packaging appealing.
Look at a cake mould and work out where the mirror image would turn up in the baked result.
Before you go
Guide listings give different days: Thursday and Saturday, or Friday and Saturday. Call ahead to confirm the museum’s opening, and ask whether the museum can be visited separately from the café.