Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-09-23
| RULERS A SURVIVAL
!, R>nrs Dutch Nnmr-A New AM
sterdan Dainty


10 YOU like crulers? Then you're a
al New Horker--in one way. at least
rullers are honest-to-goodness Manhat-
food. They belong here. They were
Pre- centuries before the ancestors of
ost of us dreamed of packing up and
bling for America
Crullers are the only thing we eat now
lays in New York that got the name
still bears from the Dutch settlers
rltes Z. \. Lurie in the Post To be
ire, we eat lots of things that the Dutch
Plonists ate in Nieuw Amsterdam but
e don't call them by the Dutch name
rulers were crullers in Petrus Stuyves-
hts day.
Mark Twain thought he saw food
IN porium in about every second shop
this city. New Workers., native or i'm
orted can say they inherited their ap-
etites from the Dutch. who brought
heir love Of rich food and plenty or
from the old country. Cardinal Ben
voglio, who described the Dutch of the
me of the emigration to America. says
ley found their greatest pleasures at
he table.
There We're three kinds of fried cakes
Rten in Nieuw Amsterdam. Washing.
pm Irving calls the three kinds "the
oughy doughnut. the tender olvkoek.
be crisp and crumbling cruller." New
ork had no monopoly Of them The
puehnut was an equal favorite In New
England. and was IN some localities call
b simball,' or 'smblin,' which was
ew England variant. a Puritan degra-
ent Of the simbling cake or simnel of
be English Mid-Lent Sunday" says Alice
Horse Earle in Colonial Days IN Old
ew York In New England country
ouses doushnuts were eaten-indeed are
hten-all the year round three meals a
sy, but Mrs. Vanderbilt says the Dutch
b Flatbush only made them from No
enber through January, because in that
eriod the lard in which they were cooked
as still fresh. She also SAYS they were
nited in their public appearance TO the
pa table or for children to eat between
heals "
If any housewife wants 20 make oily
oeks as the Dutch New York huysvrow
hsde them here's the recipe. quoted by
frs. Earle from an old collection dated
t4o:
About l. o'clock set a little yeast to
Use 60 as to he ready at 500 n M
b mix with the following Ingredients
hrke and three-auarters pounds Of -four
ne pound sugar. one-half pound of but
er and lard mixed. one and a half pints
blk six eggs, one pint raised yeast
Warm the butter. sugar. and milk to-.
e ther, crate nutmeg in :he Hour, add
ggs last, Place in warm place to rise.
quito light al bedtime work them down
~ pressing with the heno At nine next
horntng make into small balls with the
and and Place In tHs cecte, o. escr,
DIT 81 "ais!n. ctron. and apple cnop ped
O.. 10y o. a wei'-houred pie ooari
N ailcw than e. 7se agar. They are
rsouert;? ready IT boil az two O'Clock,
n removing tier, from tho board use a
n,fe we'll fcureS and give them Jus. e.
.ue roll ~'itr ere hand 10 make Thorn
o9-e>, HAv. the :at boiling anc boil
aeh ono E-n n,frutAs, When cool roll
b siftec sugar
Tie mar "oiyXteS'' means. !i.Araily
'otl cake, ara the dAinties war; 40
Snned le ause they were "bo..ed' o.
REQ in Oh
cns OF tire fAyo1sn da.n:.s~ Of our
)u.:h ancNtors o. predecessors. vas a
cru o; tea cake cat.ed ''iser coo<y."
Ills cake wfiah Vac made IN New
ENGLAND Etehsns also. sot In name from,
NC '''.Ad'utsi' VIVA lICF OF yer,
heaninS "!ou." The "izer cookies" wore
Pakec in long handle. irons CALEB wafer
-1ns. On ,Ae INSIDE Of these were often
otnc tho Initials of the owner. .rn pressed
thI iv"a IN reverse, so that the cakes
'oro che marx CT tho maker. Some times
he :ro;tn ware us.i rs Wedding gifts and
had the initials It the happy pair inter-
ained.
Probably the Dutch cakes, II made to-
lay, would be- 100 rich for the modern
stomach. For example, there was a pork
axe which was made of chopped pork
with sp!css. almonds. currants, and rails.
re-. AL favored with brandy. Certain
ern.hes nad famous recipes for cakes.
I,f such vas the Schuyler wedding cake,
which, we are told. was composed, among
b.her Ingredients. Of Il dozen eggs, IS
hoar6c OF ra:sins. "A pounds OF currants
or quarts Of brandy and quart of
tom. This was mixed in IA wash-tub.
Among the Queer,y named dainties
tzh'eh the Dutch brought from Europe
.-ls the holly Dyssha." also called "bolla
bouche' or belly buysie." This got its
Kama from "bolle." the old Dutch and
fpanish word for II bun. and "bacia."
fpanish for a metal pan.