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Dutch Cuisine is shaped by the agricultural produce and history of the Netherlands. It is characterized by its somewhat limited diversity in dishes, the high consumption of vegetables when compared to the consumption of meat, and the wholesomeness of the dishes. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... The Dutch have a code of etiquette, the code that governs the expectations of social behaviour, and it is considered very important. ... The population of the Netherlands is concentrated on a limited territory. ... Holidays in the Netherlands: Categories: | | ... The Politics of the Netherlands take place within the framework of a parliamentary representative democracy, a constitutional monarchy and a decentralised unitary state. ... The drug policy of the Netherlands is based on 2 principles: Drug use is a public health issue, not a criminal matter A distinction between hard drugs and soft drugs exists It is a pragmatic policy. ... In 2002 Netherlands legalized euthanasia. ... Prostitution in the Netherlands is legal and common. ... The Netherlands has allowed same-sex marriage since April 1, 2001, the first country to do so. ... Pillarisation (Verzuiling in Dutch, Pilarisation in French) is a term used to describe the way the Dutch and Belgians used to deal with their multicultural (but not multiethnic) societies. ... Agriculture (encompassing farming, grazing, and the tending of orchards, vineyards and timberland) is the production of food, feed, fiber and other goods by the systematic raising of plants and animals. ... The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. ...

History

The modest and plain outlook of what is nowadays considered as traditional Dutch cuisine appears to be the result of a fairly recent development. From the 17th century onward, the dishes of the wealthy consisted of a rich variety of fruits, cheeses, meat, wine and nuts. The national cuisine became greatly impoverished when, at the turn of the 20th century, ever greater numbers of girls were sent to a new school type, the Huishoudschool, where young women were trained to become a domestic servant, and where lessons in cooking cheap and simple meals were a major part of the curriculum. ^[1][2] A servant is a person who is hired to provide regular household or other duties, and receives compensation. ...

Agricultural products

Dutch agriculture roughly consists of five sectors: fishery, animal husbandry, tillage-based, fruit-based, and greenhouse-based agriculture. The last has had little or no influence on the traditional Dutch meals. A lobster boat unloading its catch in Ilfracombe harbour, North Devon, England. ... Shepherd with his sheep in Făgăraş Mountains, Romania. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Royal Greenhouses of Laeken. ...

• Tillage-based crops include: potatoes, beetroot, green beans, carrots, celeriac, onions, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, endive, spinach, Belgian endive and lettuce. Recently some initiatives have been started to retain interest in forgotten vegetables including common purslane, medlar, parsnip and black salsify

• Greenhouses are used to produce tomatoes, lettuce, cucumber and sweet pepper.

• Fruits include apples, pears, cherries and plums.

• The Dutch keep cows both for consumption and milk, and chickens and pigs for consumption.

• The fishery sector produces: cod, herring, plaice, soleidae, mackerel, eel, tuna, salmon, trout, oysters, mussels, shrimp and sardine.

For other uses, see Potato (disambiguation). ... A beet (called beetroot in the United Kingdom and its former colonies, as well as table beet, garden beet, blood turnip or red beet) is a plant of the genus Beta of which both the leaves and root are edible. ... Green common beans on the plant Green beans are the unripe fruits of any kind of bean, including the yardlong bean, the hyacinth bean, the pea, the winged bean, the carper (vellum) bean, and especially the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), whose pods are also usually called string beans in the... Binomial name L. Percentages are relative to US recommendations for adults. ... Cultivar Group Apium graveolens Rapaceum Group Celeriac (Apium graveolens Rapaceum Group) (also known as turnip-rooted celery or knob celery) is a specially selected Cultivar Group of celery, grown as a root vegetable for its large and well-developed taproot rather than for its stem and leaves. ... For other uses, see Onion (disambiguation). ... Percentages are relative to US recommendations for adults. ... Cultivar Group Brassica oleracea Gemmifera Group The Brussels sprout (Brassica oleracea Gemmifera Group) is a cultivar group of cabbage cultivated for its small (typically 2. ... Percentages are relative to US recommendations for adults. ... Belgian endive Endive (Chichorium intibus) is a leaf vegetable used especially in salads. ... Binomial name Spinacia oleracea L. Percentages are relative to US recommendations for adults. ... Belgian endive Endive (Chichorium intibus) is a leaf vegetable used especially in salads. ... Binomial name L. Percentages are relative to US recommendations for adults. ... Binomial name Portulaca oleracea L. Portulaca oleracea (Common Purslane, also known as Pigweed, Little Hogweed or Pusley), is an annual succulent in the family Portulacaceae. ... Species Mespilus canescens Mespilus germanica Common-Medlar flowers Medlar fruit, cv. ... Binomial name Pastinaca sativa L. 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For other uses, see Pig (disambiguation). ... the world is coming to the end!!!!! cod is going to eat up alive and do us hard up the emmm. ... Species Clupea alba Clupea bentincki Clupea caspiopontica Clupea chrysotaenia Clupea elongata Clupea halec Clupea harengus Clupea inermis Clupea leachii Clupea lineolata Clupea minima Clupea mirabilis Clupea pallasii Clupea sardinacaroli Clupea sulcata Herrings are small oily fish of the genus Clupea found in the shallow, temperate waters of the North Atlantic... Binomial name Pleuronectes platessa Linnaeus, 1758 European plaice (Pleuronectes platessa) are a commercially important flatfish occurring on the sandy bottoms of the European shelf. ... Genera (22 genera) The soles are a family (Soleidae) of flatfishes found in both oceans and freshwater, feeding on small crustaceans and other invertebrates. ... Mackerel is a common name applied to a number of different species of fish, mostly, but not exclusively, from the family Scombridae. ... Suborders See text for suborders and families. ... For other uses, see Tuna (disambiguation). ... Illustration of a male Coho Salmon The Chinook or King Salmon is the largest salmon in North America and can grow to 1. ... Rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss Biwa trout (or Biwa salmon), Oncorhynchus masou rhodurus Trout is the common name given to a number of species of freshwater fish belonging to the salmon family, Salmonidae. ... The name oyster is used for a number of different groups of mollusks which grow for the most part in marine or brackish water. ... Mussels A mussel is a bivalve shellfish that can be found in lakes, rivers, creeks, intertidal areas, and throughout the ocean. ... Superfamilies Alpheoidea Atyoidea Bresilioidea Campylonotoidea Crangonoidea Galatheacaridoidea Nematocarcinoidea Oplophoroidea Palaemonoidea Pandaloidea Pasiphaeoidea Procaridoidea Processoidea Psalidopodoidea Stylodactyloidea True shrimp are swimming, decapod crustaceans classified in the infraorder Caridea, found widely around the world in both fresh and salt water. ... Sardines in the Pacific An open Sardines can Sardines on a plate grilled Sardines For the hide and seek-like game, see Hide and seek. ...

Indonesian influence

Because of the Dutch colonial past, there has been a considerable Asian influence on the Dutch cuisine. From the 16th century onwards all sorts of spices mainly from the Dutch Indies were introduced into Dutch cuisine. Hence many traditional Dutch dishes are (heavily) flavoured with Southeast Asian herbs and spices. Later Indonesian dishes such as Nasi Goreng, rice with chicken or pork, became part of Dutch cuisine. Because of this, local Chinese takeaway restaurants in the Netherlands also have considerable Indonesian influences, leading many restaurants to style themselves "Chinese-Indonesian". A map showing the territory that the Netherlands held at various points in history. ... The Dutch East Indies, or Netherlands East Indies, (Dutch: Nederlands Indië) was the name of the colonies set up by the Dutch East India Company, which came under administration of the Netherlands during the 19th century (see Indonesia). ... Nasi goreng Nasi goreng is an Indonesian and Malaysian version of fried rice - that is what it means in both languages. ...

Bread & Cheese

The Dutch are famous for their dairy products and especially for their (cow milk) cheeses. The vast majority of Dutch cheeses are semi-hard or hard cheeses. Famous Dutch cheeses include Goudse, Edammer, Leidse cheeses. A typically Dutch way of making cheese is the blending in of herbs or spices during the first stages of the production process. Famous examples are cheeses with cloves (usually the Frisian nagelkaas), cumin and caraway (most famously Leyden cheese), or nettle. Cheese is a solid food made from the milk of cows, goats, sheep, and other mammals. ... Country of origin The Netherlands Region, town Gouda Source of milk Cows Pasteurized Yes Texture semi-hard Aging time 4-18 months Certification  ?? Gouda cheese is a yellowish Dutch cheese named after the city of Gouda. ... Edam is a Dutch cheese that is traditionally sold as spheres with pale yellow interior and a coat of red or yellow paraffin. ... Leidse cheese, which is also known as Komijnekaas or Boeren-Leidsekaas in Dutch, is a spiced cheese made in the Netherlands from partly skimmed cows milk to which color is added. ... This article is about spices, the word clove is also used to describe a segment of a head of garlic and a clove hitch is a useful kind of knot. ... Satellite view of the German Bight (the Frisian Coast). ... Binomial name L. Cumin (Cuminum cyminum) (sometimes misspelled cummin) is a flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, native from the east Mediterranean to East India. ... Categories: | | | | ... Leidse cheese, which is also known as Komijnekaas or Boeren-Leidsekaas in Dutch, is a spiced cheese made in the Netherlands from partly skimmed cows milk to which color is added. ... “Nettles” redirects here. ...

Dutch bread tends to be very airy, as it is made from yeast dough. From the 1970s onward Dutch bread became predominantly whole grain, with often additional seeds such as sunflower or pumpkin seeds mixed with the dough for taste. Rye bread is one of the few dense breads of the Netherlands. White bread used to be the luxury bread, often made with milk besides water. A Frisian luxury version of white bread is sugarbread, white bread with large lumps of sugar mixed with the dough. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Binomial name Secale cereale M.Bieb. ... A loaf of white bread White bread is bread constructed from wheat flour from which the bran and germ have been removed, in contrast to whole wheat bread made from whole wheat flour, in which these parts are retained and contribute a brownish color. ... Satellite view of the German Bight (the Frisian Coast). ... This article is about sugar as food and as an important and widely-traded commodity. ...

Apart from cheese, the Dutch also use meat products and sweets on their bread. Typically Dutch use sweets like hagelslag (chocolate sprinkles), molasses, and peanut butter. Regionally popular hearty meats include bloedworst, dried sausage and uierboord, made from (Cow) udders. Chocolate sprinkles In the Netherlands chocolate sprinkles – hagelslag – are commonly used as a sandwich topping Birthday cupcakes with colored sprinkles Sprinkles are very small pieces of confectionary used as a decoration or to add texture to desserts – typically cakes or cupcakes, cookies, doughnuts, ice cream, and some puddings. ... Chocolate sprinkles In the Netherlands chocolate sprinkles – hagelslag – are commonly used as a sandwich topping Birthday cupcakes with colored sprinkles Sprinkles are very small pieces of confectionary used as a decoration or to add texture to desserts – typically cakes or cupcakes, cookies, doughnuts, ice cream, and some puddings. ... Molasses or treacle is a thick syrup by-product from the processing of the sugarcane or sugar beet into sugar. ... Peanut butter in a jar. ... Morcilla cocida: Spanish-style blood sausage Blood sausage or black pudding or blood pudding is a sausage made by cooking down the blood of an animal with meat, fat or filler until it is thick enough to congeal when cooled. ... A cow udder with 4 teats An udder is the mammary organ of cattle and some other mammals, including goats and sheep. ...

Coffee & Tea

The Dutch drink coffee and tea throughout the day, often served with one simple biscuit. Dutch thrift led to the famous standard rule of only one cookie with each cup of coffee; it has been suggested that the reasons for this can be found in the trade-mentality and Protestant upbringing. A popular Dutch story (that has never been confirmed) says that then-Prime minister Willem Drees's wife served this to a visiting American diplomat, who then became convinced that the money from the Marshall Plan was well-spent. Café au lait is also drunk often. It is called Koffie verkeerd (Coffee-the-wrong-way-around also refered to as 'milk with a cloud of coffee'). Other hot drinks include Kwast (warm water with the juice of a lemon), anijsmelk (hot milk with anise) and the very popular hot chocolate or chocolate milk . A cup of coffee. ... Tea leaves in a Chinese gaiwan. ... A prime minister is the most senior minister of a cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. ... Prime Minister of the Netherlands Willem Drees (July 5, 1886-May 14, 1988) was a Dutch politician, prime minister of the Netherlands from 1948 until 1958, as a member of the social-democratic Dutch Labour Party (PvdA). ... Diplomat redirects here. ... Map of Cold-War era Europe and the Near East showing countries that received Marshall Plan aid. ... Café au lait, literally coffee with milk, is a French coffee drink prepared by mixing coffee and scalded (not steamed) milk. ... This article is about the fruit. ... Pimpinella species, but the name anise is frequently applied to Fennel. ... <nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here <gallery> Insert non-formatted text here </gallery></nowiki>:For the beverage, see Hot chocolate. ... For other uses, see Chocolate milk (disambiguation). ...

Dutch invite friends over for "koffietijd" (coffee time), which consists of coffee and cake or a biscuit, and is served between 10 and 11 a.m. (before lunch).

Dinner

Dinner, traditionally served early for international standards, starts at about 6 o'clock in the evening. The classical Dutch dinner consists of one simple course: traditionally potatoes, with vegetables and meat and gravy, or a stew wherein potatoes and vegetables have been mixed. If there is an entrée, it is usually a soup. Current Dutch dinner is often heavily influenced by foreign kitchen. Amalgamies of foreign dishes such as Italien pasta's, Indonesian meat and rice dishes, Mexican enchilada's, Swiss cheese fondue are commonly encountered on the Dutch dinner table and on the menu's of local restaurants. The final course is a sweet dessert. Traditionally yoghurt with some sugar or vla (cooked milk with custard). Yoghurt or yogurt, less commonly yoghourt or yogourt (see spelling below), is a dairy product produced by bacterial fermentation of milk. ... VLA can be used, as an acronym, for Very Large Array - a telescope configuration in astronomy. ...

Some classical typical Dutch dishes include stamppot (Dutch stew) and pea soup. Famous stamppotten include: Dutch pea soup Pea soup is soup made, typically, from dried peas. ...

• Hutspot, made of potatoes, onions and carrots served with slow-cooked meat or bacon. This is a legacy of the Spanish invaders, who left a pot of hutspot in their trenches outside the hungering besieged town of Leiden in 1574. When the city was liberated, this stew was one the first food its inhabitants found.^{[citation needed]} Before potatoes were used in Europe hutspot was made of parsnips, carrots and onions.
• Boerenkoolstamppot, kale mixed with potatoes, served with gravy, mustard and rookworst.
• Stamppot rauwe andijvie, raw endive mashed through hot potatoes, served with diced fried speck.
• Hete Bliksem, boiled potatoes and green apples, served with "stroop" (syrup) or tossed with diced speck
• Zuurkoolstamppot, sauerkraut mashed with potatoes. Served with fried bacon or a sausage. Sometimes curry powder, raisins or slices of pineapple are used to give a stamppot an exotic touch.

Stews are often served with mixed pickle, including zure zult or stewed pears (stoofperen). Hutspot is a dish of boiled and mashed potatoes, carrots and onions with a long history in traditional Dutch cuisine. ... Look up bacon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The siege of Leiden occured during the Eighty Years War in 1573 and 1574. ... Leyden redirects here. ... Binomial name Pastinaca sativa L. The parsnip (Pastinaca sativa) is a root vegetable related to the carrot. ... Kale (also called Borecole) is a form of cabbage (Brassica oleracea Acephala Group), green in color, in which the central leaves do not form a head. ... A piece of rookworst with Sauerkraut mas (zuurkool stamppot). ... Belgian endive Endive (Chichorium intibus) is a leaf vegetable used especially in salads. ... Speck is a pork product that is used in German and Italian cooking. ... In cooking, a syrup (from Arabic شراب sharab, beverage, via Latin siropus) is a thick, viscous liquid, containing a large amount of dissolved sugars, but showing little tendency to deposit crystals. ... Sauerkraut and sausage on a plate Pickled Eisbein, served with Sauerkraut Percentages are relative to US recommendations for adults. ... This article is about the dish. ... In Indian cuisine, a mixed pickle consists of various pickled fruits and vegetables (invariably including chilli peppers) suspended in vegetable oil. ...

The meat products include meatballs, blinde vink, minced meat wrapped in bacon, balkenbrij, a type of liverwurst and meatloaf. The gravy in which the meat is produced is also eaten. A variant of this, eaten around the IJsselmeer, is butter en eek, where vinegar is added to the gravy. For other uses, see Meatball (disambiguation). ... Balkenbrij is a traditional Dutch style form of liverwurst. ... Slices of Liverwurst Liverwurst, literally meaning liver sausage, is a typical sausage served in Germany (German: Leberwurst) and the Netherlands (Dutch: leverworst). ... This article is about the meat dish. ... for the guitarist, see Dave Felton Gravy is a type of sauce, usually made from the juices that naturally run from meat or vegetables during cooking. ... Traditional boat on the IJsselmeer Landsat photo The IJsselmeer (or Lake IJssel) is a shallow lake of some 1250 km² in the central Netherlands bordering the provinces of Flevoland, North Holland and Friesland, with an average depth of 5 to 6 m. ... Vinegar is sometimes infused with spices or herbs—as here, with oregano. ...

If a dish consists of beans/potatoes, meat and vegetables, these vegetables are sometimes served as a stew, like "rode kool met appeltjes" (red cabbage with apples), or "rode bieten" (red beets). Regular spices used in this kind of stews may be Bay Laurel, Juniperus communis berries, cloves and vinegar. Binomial name Laurus nobilis L. The Bay Laurel (Laurus nobilis, Lauraceae), also known as True Laurel, Sweet Bay, Grecian Laurel, or just Laurel, is an evergreen tree or large shrub reaching 10–18 m tall, native to the Mediterranean region. ... Binomial name Juniperus communis L. Juniperus communis, the Common Juniper, is a shrub or small tree, very variable and often a low spreading shrub, but occasionally reaching 10 m tall. ... Binomial name (L.) Merrill & Perry A single dried clove flower bud Cloves (Syzygium aromaticum, syn. ...

Dinner can also be pancakes. The Dutch make them in several forms, including poffertjes (miniature pancakes) and spekdik (a Northern variant with bacon). Wentelteefjes are similar. Broeder, a type of cake, is also eaten for dinner, mainly in West Friesland. Two American-style pancakes A pancake is a batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle with oil or butter. ... Look up bacon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... It has been suggested that Pain perdu be merged into this article or section. ... West Friesland (also West Frisia; Dutch: West-Friesland; West Frisian: West-Fryslân) is a contemporary region in the northwestern Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. ...

Desserts often include vla, pudding or yoghurt. Regional variants include broodpap, made from old bread, griesmeelpudding, grutjespap, Haagse bluf, Hangop, Jan in de zak, Karnemelksepap, Rijstebrij (rice pudding), Krentjebrij, and Watergruwel. VLA can be used, as an acronym, for Very Large Array - a telescope configuration in astronomy. ... Pudding can be prepared with a large variety of toppings such as fresh fruit and/or berries, and whipped cream Christmas pudding Dessert pudding Illustrations from Isabella Beetons Mrs Beetons Book of Household Management, 1861 In the United Kingdom, and some Commonwealth countries, pudding is the common name for... Yoghurt or yogurt, less commonly yoghourt or yogourt (see spelling below), is a dairy product produced by bacterial fermentation of milk. ... Krentjebrij is a Groningen / North-Drenthe name for a traditional soup or porridge-like dessert with berries that is generally eaten cold. ...

Alcoholic Drinks

Traditionally wine has received a modest role in Dutch cuisine, but there are many brands of beer (mainly lager) and strong alcoholic liquor. The most famous Dutch beer producers are Heineken in the west and Grolsch in the east. Also a variety of bitters where Beerenburg is the most famous. Strong liquors include Jenever and Brandewijn, but also kandeel (made from white wine), Kraamanijs (a liquor made from anise), Oranjebitter (a type of orange brandy, which is served on festivities surrounding the royal family), advocaat, Boerenjongens, raisins on brandewijn, Boerenmeisjes, apricot on brandewijn. For other uses, see Beer (disambiguation). ... Lager is a well attenuated beer brewed in cool conditions using a slow-acting brewers yeast, known as a bottom-fermenting yeast, and then stored (or lagered) for a period in cool conditions to clear away particles and certain flavour compounds to produce a clean taste. ... The former Heineken brewery in Amsterdam, now a museum The Netherlands is famous for their lager beers, especially Amstel, Heineken and Grolsch, which are well known all over the world. ... Heineken (or Heineken Brouwerijen) is a Dutch beer brewer, established in 1863 when Gerard Adriaan Heineken purchased a brewery in Amsterdam. ... A beugel type bottle of Grolsch beer in its natural habitat Grolsch (in full Koninklijke Grolsch N.V. or Royal Grolsch N.V.) (Euronext: GROL) is a Dutch brewery best known for its pilsner which was originally brewed in Groenlo. ... Beerenburg is a Frisian alcoholic drink, made by adding herbs to jenever. ... Jenever (also known as genever or jeniever), is the juniper-flavored and strongly alcoholic traditional liquor of the Netherlands and Flanders, from which gin has evolved. ... A bottle of calvados Pays DAuge Brandy (short for brandywine, from Dutch brandewijn—burnt wine[1]) is a general term for distilled wine, usually 40–60% ethyl alcohol by volume. ... Pimpinella species, but the name anise is frequently applied to Fennel. ... The Netherlands have been an independent monarchy since March 16, 1815, and have been governed by members of the House of Orange-Nassau since. ... Advocaat Advocaat (or advokatt) is a rich and creamy liqueur made from eggs, sugar and brandy. ... Raisins Percentages are relative to US recommendations for adults. ... Binomial name Prunus armeniaca L. For other uses, see Apricot (disambiguation). ...

Special Occasions

Whipped cream cake, a very popular Dutch cake

Oliebollen, a Dutch pastry eaten on New Year's Eve.

On special occasions, pastries are eaten. Image File history File links Slagroomtaart. ... Image File history File links Slagroomtaart. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Oliebollen. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Oliebollen. ... Oliebollen Oliebollen, sometimes called Smoutebollen, are a traditional Dutch food. ...

When a baby is born in a family, the young parents traditionally serve their guests beschuit met muisjes (Dutch rusk covered with sugared aniseed). Beschuit met muisjes (pronunciation: “bəsxœyt mЄt mœyςəs”, lit: “Dutch rusks with little mice”) is the traditional food served to celebrate the birth of a baby in the Netherlands. ... A rusk is a hard dry biscuit, or a slice of bread baked again until it is hard and crisp (also known as Zwieback). ... Binomial name Pimpinella anisum L. Anise (Pimpinella anisum) is an herb in the family Apiaceae (formerly Umbelliferae) whose seed-like fruit (also called aniseed) is used in sweet baking as well as in anise-flavored liqueurs (e. ...

The Dutch festival of Sinterklaas (dedicated to Saint Nicolas) is held on the 5 December. Special pastries are made and are distributed by his aide Zwarte Piet, they include pepernoten (gingernut-like biscuits but made with cinnamon, pepper, cloves and nutmeg mix of spices), letters made from chocolate, marzipan, borstplaat (discs of fondant); and several types of spiced cookies: taai-taai, speculaas and kruidnoten, banketstaaf, made from almond meal Sinterklaas and his Zwarte Pieten helpers arrive in the town of Sneek in November 2005 Sinterklaas (also called Sint Nikolaas in Dutch ( (help· info)) and Saint Nicolas in French) is a holiday tradition in the Netherlands and Belgium, celebrated every year on Saint Nicholas eve (December 5) or, in Belgium... There are communes that have the name Saint-Nicolas (French for Saint Nicholas) in France: In France Saint-Nicolas, in the Pas-de-Calais d partement Related Saint-Nicolas-aux-Bois, in the Aisne d partement Saint-Nicolas-dAliermont, in the Seine-Maritime d partement Saint-Nicolas-dAttez... is the 339th day of the year (340th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Zwarte Piet, together with Sinterklaas In the folklore and legends of the Netherlands and Flanders, Zwarte Piet ( (help· info)) (meaning Black Pete) is a companion of Saint Nicholas (Dutch Sinterklaas) whose yearly feast in the Netherlands is 5 December and 6 December in Flanders, when they distribute presents to all... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Ginger snap. ... For other uses, see Chocolate (disambiguation). ... Fruit shapes molded from marzipan Marzipan is a confection consisting primarily of sugar and ground almonds that derives its characteristic flavor from bitter almonds, which constitute 4% to 6% of total almond content by weight. ... Fondant is a confection used as a filling or coating for cakes, pastries, and candies or sweets. ... Speculaas: Ship, Farmhouse, Elephant, Horse Speculaas (/spekylas/, Spéculoos in French) is a type of shortcrust biscuit (AE: cookie), traditionally baked for consumption on St Nicholas Eve (December 5). ... Almond meal and almond paste are made from ground sweet almonds, after the extraction of almond oil. ...

On New Year's Eve, Dutch houses smell of piping hot oil deep fryers in which oliebollen, appelflappen and appelbeignets (battered apple rings) are prepared. These yeast dough balls, filled with glacé fruits, pieces of apple and raisins and sultanas, are served with powdered sugar and are a treat especially for New Year's Eve. The Dutch also brought their oliebollen to America, where they are now known in a slightly different form as donuts. Oliebollen Oliebollen, sometimes called Smoutebollen, are a traditional Dutch food. ... The sultana is a type of white, seedless grape of Turkish or Persian origin, as well as a type of raisin made from it; such sultana raisins are often called simply sultanas or They are commonly used in South Asian cooking, where they are called These are typically larger than... A chocolate-glazed doughnut A doughnut, or donut, is a deep-fried piece of dough or batter. ...

On birthdays all kinds of cakes and cookies are eaten, including appeltaart, Bossche bol, dikke koek, cream cake, Fryske dumkes, gevulde koek (cookies filled with almond meal), Groninger koek, Janhagel, Ketelkoek, Kindermanstik, Knieperties, Krakeling, Krentenwegge, Kruidkoek, Limburgse vlaai, Nonnevotten, Ouwewijvenkoek, peperkoek, Rijstekoek, Spekkoek (from Indonesia), Sprits, Tompouce, Trommelkoek, Bitterkoekjes, Kletskop and Stroopwafel. For the manga anthology series, see Petit Apple Pie. ... Gingerbread cookies Lebkuchen Gingerbread in cake form A gingerbread house Traditional Polish gingerbread Gingerbread is a sweet that can take the form of a cake or a cookie in which the predominant flavor is ginger. ... Spekkoek is a Dutch-Indonesian pastry. ... Stroopwafels (Dutch for syrup waffle) are Dutch cookies made from two round waffle-like wafers with sweet syrup in the middle. ...

A famous Dutch sweet is Drop (liquorice). Dutch drop is sold in a large variety of shapes and forms. Drop can be either sweet or salty (or very salty). It is sometimes flavored with coconut fondant (Engelse drop or English drop), honey (honingdrop), mint (muntdrop), salmiak (salmiakdrop), or laurel (laurierdrop). Typical shapes are lozenges, ovals, oblongs and coins. Honeycombs for honeydrop are also familiair. Some brands have introduced ranges of typically shaped drop after: cars (autodrop), farm animals and machines (boerderijdrop) etc. Haribos licorice wheels Licorice candy (liquorice in British English) is flavored with the extract of the roots of the licorice plant, and usually anise oil as well. ... Two German brands of salmiakki. ...

Fastfood

The Dutch have their own types of fastfood. A Dutch fastfood meal often consists of a portion of french fries (called friet or patat) with a sauce and a meat product. The most common sauce to accompany French fries is mayonaise, while others can be ketchup or spiced ketchup, peanut sauce or piccalilli. Sometimes the fries are served with combinations of sauces, most famously speciaal (special): mayonnaise, with (spiced) ketchup and chopped onions; and oorlog (literally "war"): mayonnaise and peanut sauce (sometimes also with ketchup and chopped onions). The meat product is usually a deep fried snack; this includes the frikandel (a deep fried skinless minced meat sausage), and the kroket (deep fried meat ragout covered in breadcrumbs). French fried potatoes, commonly known as French fries or fries (North America) or chips (United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland and Commonwealth) are pieces of potato that have been chopped into batons and deep fried. ... In cooking, mayonnaise is a thick, creamy sauce, usually of a white or light yellow color, which is made and eaten cold. ... A bottle of Heinz Organic Ketchup Ketchup (or less commonly catsup) also known as Red Sauce or Tomato Sauce is a condiment, usually made with ripened tomatoes. ... Peanut sauce (also called satay sauce) is initially an oriental sauce and widely use in Indonesian cuisine (known as kacang sambal). ... Piccalilli is a mustard pickle, which generally contains gherkins, cauliflower and onions, but may contain virtually any type of vegetable. ... Frikandel A frikandel (plural frikandellen) is a Dutch snack, a sort of minced-meat hot dog. ... The croquet or croquette (kroket in Dutch) is a popular snack in the Netherlands. ...

A smaller version of the kroket, the bitterbal, is often served as a snack in bars and official receptions with mustard. Regional snacks include eierbal (a combination of egg and ragout) in the North and East, and Brabants worstenbrood, a sausage baked in bread. Other snacks are the Indonesian-inspired bamihap (deepfried bread encrusted mee goreng), and the nasibal (deepfried bread encrusted nasi goreng). Bitterballen are a savoury Dutch meat-based snack, typically containing a mixture of beef (minced or chopped), beef broth, flour and butter for thickening, parsley, salt and pepper. ... The term ragout (French ragoût) can refer to a main-dish stew or to a sauce for noodles or other starchy foods. ... Mee Goreng (English: Fried Noodles, India-style) is a dish famous in Malaysia and Singapore. ... Nasi goreng Nasi goreng is an Indonesian and Malaysian version of fried rice - that is what it means in both languages. ...

Another kind of fastfood is fish. This includes raw herring, which is sold and eaten (often with chopped onions) in markets, by lifting the herring high in the air by its tail, and eating it upwards, or (less messy) on a bun. Another regular fish snack is "kibbeling"; deep fried nugget sized chunks of cod, smoked eel and rollmops. Species Clupea alba Clupea bentincki Clupea caspiopontica Clupea chrysotaenia Clupea elongata Clupea halec Clupea harengus Clupea inermis Clupea leachii Clupea lineolata Clupea minima Clupea mirabilis Clupea pallasii Clupea sardinacaroli Clupea sulcata Herrings are small oily fish of the genus Clupea found in the shallow, temperate waters of the North Atlantic... The Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua, is a well-known food fish belonging to the family Gadidae. ... Suborders See text for suborders and families. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Herring. ...

Footnotes

External links

• Dutch food and eating habits
• Eating the Dutch way