Featured Gingerbread mold?

Can anyone help with info on this?
It is almost 4ft long so I’m not sure if it can be a mold being that big. I can tell it does have some good age to it

 

Perhaps a wall decor item?

 

Sometimes called a speculaas mould.
https://leojames.wordpress.com/2012/12/08/using-a-giant-speculaas-board/

 

Here is a pair similar to yours.

https://www.upperdutch.com/products...-folk-art-cookie-mold-springerle-bakery-decor

 

Ok so there are giant ones lol
Thanks everyone

 

Fantastic. "You can have ONE cookie before bedtime"

 

Yes, it is a rather basic Dutch speculaasmold. Speculaas is different from gingerbread, not as squidgy to feel or as gooey when you eat it. Gingerbread is called 'taaitaai' in Dutch.
Speculaas is much more like a regular biscuit/cookie, flat, and crumbly when you eat it. It is made with Indonesian spices. Sometimes almonds are added.

The listing sis posted also mentions the name Springerle, which are different again. Springerle are from Germany and Switzerland. The decoration can be much more detailed than on gingerbread, because the dough is dried for 24 hours or so before baking, so the surface hardens and keeps its shape.

Speculaas:


Springerle:

 

please forget such nonsense as Springerle being Swiss. they are called Änisbrötli.
when you see something ending on -le then you know it's from Southern Germany ; when it's -li then it's Swiss. sadly due to a big immigration and some stupid books from Germans about Switzerland and its dialects - they know everything better anyway... -it comes to such utter BS even in German wikipedia.

 

Thank you for the addition, fid.

For complete disclosure I should add, there are also different words for taaitaai and speculaas in the different languages of the Netherlands (six recognised languages in total). But I decided to stick to the terms that were already mentioned in this thread, which are official Dutch Frankish, the largest language group of the Netherlands. And southern German, of course.

More disclosure: Dutch Frankish is really two languages, Brabant Frankish and Holland Frankish. They were mixed together with some Dutch Lower Saxon words to form the official Dutch Frankish language (which obviously is not completely Frankish).

I think I will lie down now.

 

Nice, Basel?

 

Speaking of languages, a UK company just sent me an email wishing me 'Frohe Weihnachten'.
Why do so many people think we speak German? That is one place I won't be ordering from again.

What is wrong with 'Prettige Kerstdagen' anyway? Isn't that what everybody says?