sweets in Netherland

Sweets in Netherlands

 

 In this part, I’d like to talk about Oliebollen.

Oliebollen is traditional New-Year's-Eve sweets eaten in the Netherlands at an end of the year and a model for doughnut. During staying at Netherlands from 1607 to 1620, the Puritan who persecuted in Britain learned how to cook.

And, the model for the doughnut got across to New England with the Pilgrim fathers' colonization. Then, it was carried into the United States from Europe by the Netherlands immigration again, and it got across also to the Netherlands territory.

Secondly, I’m going to describe “Beschuit met muisjes”.

It is said that sweets called "Beschuit met muisjes" will be eaten in the Netherlands if a baby is born. People seem to sprinkle the sweets of a grain called muisjes on a rusk called Beschuit and eat.

If a girl is born, pink muisjes will be sprinkled. On the other hand, if a boy is

born, blue muisjes will be sprinkled. 

The name of it seems to mean a biscuit with a rat because a rat is productive. The same customs are taken in Germany.

 

Thirdly, I’m going to inform you of “Speculaas”

In the Netherlands, it is Cookie which is indispensable to St, Nicolas-day on December 6. Spices, such as a cinnamon, a clove, and a ginger are included, a little harder tough is characteristic of this cookie. Since St, Nicholas Bishop gave money and goods to people who are in poverty, he is called Santa Claus's originator. The children of the Netherlands are looking forward to the present given on the previous night of St, Nicolas-day. Speculaas has not only the forms of a square and a circle but also that of a Saint and a church at Christmas.