Driven by passion, Jules Destrooper , a colonial trader, combined the best of the spices he imported from Africa and the East with the best of nature’s ingredients. That’s how he obtained a very unique flavour for the almond thin, a delicate biscuit that was to please generations of people all over the world. In that way, in 1886, the biscuiterie Jules Destrooper was founded. Driven by the success of his product and by his natural talent, Jules Destrooper worked out his own recipe of a traditional Belgian butter wafer, which he successfully launched on the Belgian market in 1890.
In 1911 the almond thin was rewarded with the prestigious golden award at the famous food show in Paris. Jules Destrooper , motivated by this international recognition, continued his efforts to improve the quality of his products. Several other national and international awards stimulated a first selective export of the products.
The art of preserving the quality and the freshness of their products was one of the major concerns of the second and third generation of the Destrooper family. By means of an airtight aluminium packing method, the family succeeded in increasing the shelf life of their natural and therefore delicate products to up to nine months. This of course enabled the first step to world-wide export. From then on, gastronomes from the four corners of the world could enjoy the unique freshness, the delicate flavour and the crispiness of the original Jules Destrooper biscuits. Moreover, in this period, a third delicious biscuit was baked: a sister of the butter wafer, the Paris wafer or butter crumble.