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The start of summer sadly marks the end of Jakob Jung’s (@jakobj24.bsky.social) internship at PRESERVARE. Over the past few months, he has been researching the production of rusk in the early modern Low Countries. He shares his findings in this blog post: preservare.eu/2025/06/23/a...
A Crumbling History: Reconstructing Wormer Rusk Production and Its Sticky Connections
Two pieces of ‘Wormer beschuit’ survive in the collection of the Zaans Museum and are claimed to be more than 300 years old: hard, dry, and crumbly. Would you still fancy a bite? Four centuries ag…
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June 23, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The start of summer sadly marks the end of Jakob Jung’s (@jakobj24.bsky.social) internship at PRESERVARE. Over the past few months, he has been researching the production of rusk in the early modern Low Countries. He shares his findings in this blog post: preservare.eu/2025/06/23/a...