I can now say from experience that, yes, delicious they are.
Last Saturday Eric, Anna, and I decided to make oliebollen. Anna's kitchen conveniently has a deep fryer, and Super deBoer conveniently has a just-add-water oliebollen mix. Actually, most of their mixes are just-add-water, which is great for poor exchange students who don't have many kitchen supplies. Anyway, here is a tale through pictures of how our oliebollen-making adventures took the better part of two-and-a-half hours.
Step One:
Make the oliebollen mix, and allow to rise for 45 minutes. Done.
Step Two:
Realize that the fryer in the kitchen is filled with disgusting oil from who-knows-when. Spend 45 minutes or so cleaning it out and figuring out how to dispose of the oil.
Step Three:
Realize that the liter of oil you bought is woefully inadequate at filling the fryer. Send Anna on a return trip to Super deBoer.
Step Four:
The fryer is now filled and heated, and the oliebollen dough has now expanded incredibly after being given so much extra time to rise. Realize that this will make especially fluffy oliebollen, and that this is a good thing. Begin the frying process.
Step Five:
When the oliebollen look like this
remove them from the fryer and dust with powdered sugar.
Step Six:
Enjoy this:
Look at that fluffy texture!
Step Seven:
Open a few windows, because you just realized that you made the entire kitchen smell like a McDonald's. Also, learn from the Dutch students sharing the kitchen that oliebollen are traditionally made only for New Year's Eve. Oops. That doesn't make them any less tasty, though.
Stoopwafels, pannekoeken, oliebollen...I'm beginning to think the Dutch got at least one thing right!
That actually looks quite tasty! Random questions: (1) Do they have much peanut butter there/what American staples have you noticed missing? (2) Have you eaten fries with mayonnaise yet? (That is what they do, right?)and (3) Do you ever read "Seven" and think it says "Sven"?
ReplyDeleteI like your random questions! 1) Yes, they DO have peanut butter, and it tastes better than the pb at home! Do they not have it in Chile? The things I do miss are a wide variety of cereals (they have maybe two or three kinds in the store) and cookies/brownies. People here are more into cakes/biscuits, and there are no chocolate chips! 2) Yes to the fries with mayonnaise! It was better than I thought. 3) I haven't ever had the Seven/Sven problem, have you? I do see Sven's face on ads a lot around town, but I'm wondering if I will as much now that he's brought shame to the NL!?
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