Olliebolllen

Olie Bollen

Oliebollen are Dutch doughnuts, and they are a Dutch tradition and pastry eaten for almost every New Year's party in the Netherlands. They are little fried doughnut balls, typically deep fried, covered with powdered sugar, and filled with raisins. The ingredients include flour, eggs, milk, apples, and yeast. These doughnuts take two hours to make and eight minutes to bake.

The oliebollen origin dates back to Germanic tribes a bunch of years ago. Germanic tribes were known to have been the first to eat oliebollen in the Netherlands. Germanic goddess Perchta, would fly through the sky in mid-winter with evil spirits. To make these spirits happy, this food was offered to them. Dutch use to call olliebollen olikoek. Olikiek stands for an oil cookie and an old name for oliebol which means oil ball. After a while the word olikoek was the word that they no longer used and olliebollen became the word to use for this food.