How Dutch was my New Year...

Any Dutch doctor worth his salt tries to be home with his family on New Years Eve. Why? So they can all eat oliebollen together.

Betty Neels never mentions oliebollen as having raisins in them, but most of the recipes I found had raisins. Lots of raisins. I personally loathe cooked raisins - so I hunted around until I found a recipe without them. Very easy to make...but the recipe makes enough to feed a crowd. Next time I will have to cut the recipe in half - or invite a lot of people over to eat them.

Basically they are fried balls of moist/sticky bread dough. I was careful to cook them completely - I don't like doughy bread - and they do turn out the consistency of bread. I think if you left the powdered sugar off they wouldn't be too bad for a sandwich. I threw some chopped apple pieces in some of the dough - the apples added a nice fruity touch without being like raisins.

Gelukkig Nieuw Jaar!