Dutch influence in USA food

[PA5COR]

Dutch Legacy

The Netherlands hasn't only been on the receiving end of culinary influences, but also left its mark behind in former colonies and territories. So, for instance, the oliebol and its cousin, the apple fritter, were taken to the New World by early Dutch settlers, where they evolved into the donut. There is a saying in the USA, as American as apple pie but it really would be more accurate to say, as Dutch as apple pie, because early cookbooks show that the Dutch have been baking them since before the USA even existed.
Pancakes are eaten all over the world now, but they seem especially popular in the USA and South Africa (another former colony), where they are considered as big a part of the national identity as they are in their 'motherland' (of course, many other countries have tried to claim this honor, too). The Dutch also gave South Africa its beloved milk tart, koeksusters and vetkoek (both based on the oliebol), and soetkoekies (cookies that are similar to speculaas). Speaking of which, did you know that the Dutch introduced the cookie to North America? In fact, even the word cookie owes its etymology to the Dutch word koekje.

http://dutchfood.about.com/od/aboutd...hFoodIcons.htm
http://dutchfood.about.com/od/aboutd...odIcons.01.htm

http://dutchfood.about.com/od/aboutd...lDutchFood.htm
With recipe's just click the links.

Bon Appetit

;)

[W3MIV]

A tip of the Albi hat, Cor, and a cool Grolsch to celebrate all those Dutch delicacies. (Prefer cool, but downed many at "room temperature.") You Hollaender still beat the Germans on bier.

[PA5COR]

No problem Albi.

When i still drank beer, i visited our neighbours the Germans a lot, their more local beers are quite good, their more known export beers are less...

Stopped drinking all alcoholic beverages at the ripe age of 28 or so, driving large trucks with 40 metric tons of beer around through Europe ( Amstel/Heineken)
A job i did for 6 years, and got a taste of most European food ;)

[NQ6U]

No offense intended, Cor, but speaking as a beer snob in recovery who at one time would not drink anything but imported beer, I will now put a good American microbrewed beer right up with the best of Europe.


The swill from any of the big U.S. brewers such as A-B or Miller, of course, shouldn't even be classified as beer.

[NQ6U]

Stopped drinking all alcoholic beverages at the ripe age of 28 or so, driving large trucks with 40 metric tons of beer around through Europe ( Amstel/Heineken)
A job i did for 6 years, and got a taste of most European food ;)

I've done the same thing here in the U.S. Used to pick up Tecate beer at the Mexican border and take it all over the country. Don't ask me why--I wouldn't touch a can of that stuff with a ten-foot Pole. Or even a six-foot Czech.

[KC2UGV]

Who is responsible for cake?

[PA5COR]

Cake is a term with a long history (the word is of Viking origin, from the Old Norse kaka) and denotes a baked flour confection sweetened with sugar or honey; it is mixed with eggs and often, but not invariably, with milk and fat; and it has a porous texture from the mixture rising during cooking. It is not surprising that the frontiers between cake and bread, biscuit and bun are indistinct. The progenitor of all is bread in its simplest form. As techniques for baking and leavening developed, and eating patterns changed, what were originally regarded as froms of bread came to be seen as categories of their own and named accordingly. Certain Roman breads, enriched with eggs and butter, must have achieved a cakelike consistency and thus approached one of these indistinct frontiers.;)

[NQ6U]

Who is responsible for cake?

"The cake is a lie!"

[PA5COR]

You do realize that lots of US brands are now owned by Netherlands brewers?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heineken_brands

Just one example, Inbev (Belgian) bought up another gaggle of US breweries

No offense intended, Cor, but speaking as a beer snob in recovery who at one time would not drink anything but imported beer, I will now put a good American microbrewed beer right up with the best of Europe.


The swill from any of the big U.S. brewers such as A-B or Miller, of course, shouldn't even be classified as beer.

[kc7jty]

No offense intended, Cor, but speaking as a beer snob in recovery who at one time would not drink anything but imported beer, I will now put a good American microbrewed beer right up with the best of Europe.


The swill from any of the big U.S. brewers such as A-B or Miller, of course, shouldn't even be classified as beer.

and you live in the beer capital of the USA. I've been to O'Briens & The Liars Club when it was at Mission Beach.