Pepernoot cookies or kruidnoot cookies?

Although our name suggests otherwise, our factory does indeed make Peppernuts. Peppernut is actually the original name of the cookie. It is the family name under which all kinds of Peppernuts fall. One of them is the spiced nut, which you see a lot of nowadays. But still we stick to the name pepernoot. That's the popular name that also appears in many songs. It's much nicer. Kruidnoot sounds anonymous to us.

The distinction actually came around the 1970s, to indicate that the pepernoot contains more spices than the original pepernoot. The cookie was then called spice peppercorn, so it just belongs to the peppercorn family. We still have the old packaging!

The Dikke van Dale even calls it synonyms of each other already, but as far as we are concerned, everyone can decide for themselves.