Our First Leiden Ontzet (3 Oktober)
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- Опубликовано: 21 июл 2024
- Our First Leiden Ontzet (3 Oktober)
This week, we're sharing how we spent the 3 Oktober (Leiden Ontzet) celebrations in the city of Leiden. This year's celebration was a three-day affair and did not disappoint! We're taking you through the numerous celebratory activities, including the Taptoe, an incredible parade, tasting our first plate of hutspot, and even watching some sporting and music events. Sprinkled in, we're talking about what we've learned about the importance of celebrating this holiday and what it means to the city of Leiden.
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Oliebollen season starts when the oliebollen stall is placed next to the trainstation near the LUMC
Hidden at the back of the station, so only for the people 'in the know' ;)
It is so good to notice how interested the two of you are when it comes to Dutch history.
Also about the Hutspot: hutspot really means mix pot. In 1574 patatoes hadn’t been introduced yet, so the hutspot must have been a pot with soldiers food, ‘rats kuch en bonen’, as we say, but really probably a mix of various roots, turnips, and probably beans. This later changed into carrots, onions and patatoes, a common stamppot. Traditionally it was served with ‘Klapstuk’ which is Brisket in American.
There was also pastinaak in it, a forgotten vegtabal
When was nutmeg introduced into this dish? Of is dat misschien alleen iets in Brabant?
Nootmuskaat 🤔 nooit erin gedaan. Lijkt me heel lekker. Ik denk dat het pas later is toegevoegd, want nootmuskaat is ook pas later onderdeel van de handel met Indië geworden.
Happy to see you enjoyed the festivities. You’re becoming real Leidenaars 😊
Leienaar meè
Oliebollen… december, I would say, or whenever the bakery sees fit. I guess this one figured Leiden’s Ontzet would be appropriate.
Leiden is my Alma Mater. Great that you're covering Leidens Ontzet!
Ohhhhh oliebollen.....😋😋😋 voor mij is het altijd oliebollen seizoen, ik kom er me bed vooruit.
Happy birthday Tracey, you are a
lovely couple...
first of all congrats Tracy with your birthday 😊
keep doing those history facts I really enjoyed it, it's a nice addition to the video's
So nice to see everyone coming together to celebrate🎉. Great video!!
Happy B day Tracey! Nice video once again. So good to see you are digging in the history. Very interesting!
Thank you so much!
Awwww I miss Onzet! They don't celebrate it here in Den Haag. Btw, love your earrings! :)
I'm history nerd, so I love learning about the 80 years war.
Congratulations Tracy,....and have Fun in Texas.👍😉
Thank you so much! We're enjoying it so far.
Pretty cool to see Leids Ontzet through the eyes of Americans. I used to love it when I was younger. Not for the fair rides, that are way too expensive anyway, but for the party! Because the whole city is a big party. I was born in Leiden in the hospital, but live in a tiny town next to Leiden. So it's maybe 15 minutes by bike. We'd meet up with friends and get wasted in Leiden. lol. Happy belated birthday! Same day as my nephew. :) So hutspot is the same as pot roast, but mashed? Interesting.
Had my haring en wittebrood and my hutspot on 3 oktober in Arnhem, but I used to live in Leiden and I celebrate it every year.
Happy birthday Tracy!
I was waiting for this one all week, this is MY 3 October this year as I couldn't go myself... I have seen about 50 people I know personally walk by here and there so I really haven't missed anything haha
Glad you guys enjoyed yourselfs... thanks for a fun video
Bedankt, Shaun!
Happy birthday, how convenient the city celebrates it with you!
Thank you so much!
Born in Leiden and raised in Katwijk, I grew up with Leidens Ontzet celebration. I was always excited for the day and went to the Kermis each year. 🎉🎉love the content you two bring out. ❤
Thank you so much for continuing to support our channel!
Love ur Chanel. Always interesting to see my city through the eyes of foreigners.
Maybe I'll run into u one day.
Wow.... Just saw myself in ur video...😄
The 80s year war really is a large part of our history. It has shaped our country to what it is today; wonderful that you're getting into it!😉Things like Leiden's Ontzet keep it alive. Fascinating if you're thinking about it. This was 400/450 years ago and we have many celebrations like Leiden's Ontzet around the Netherlands still. Slag om Grolle is one, but also a place like Bourtange which is all about their history as a 'vestingsstad' or De Hanzesteden.
Hutspot is Hotchpotch in English. Have to throw that in as a teacher😉It didn't always have potatoes in it. Many of the stamppots are for practical purposes: sustaining/healthy, filling and keeping up your strength. People just threw vegetables together and maybe, sometimes, some meat. I do think they poured too much sauce on your dish though. Looked like it floated!
Leiden university is known as the 'ballen universiteit'. As in: the more posh students go there. Rich parents and such. Naturally, this isn't so for all of the students, but the King and family did study there, which kind of makes it prestigious. I think you can compare it best to Harvard in the US.
Btw, side-note, when you go to the Efteling in November keep in mind that you won't be able to visit everything in one day. The highlights (imo) are Droomvlucht (dreamflight), Symbolica, Sprookjesbos (fairy-tail forest) and Ravelijn (show) with dinner afterwards (make sure you make reservations for that dinner at least 2 weeks in advance). You could throw in Villa Volta since it is situated next to Ravelijn and Droomvlucht. Yes, there are roller-coasters and such, but the Efteling is about stories/fairy-tales first and foremost. That means the best experience would be to take that in. Waiting lines for the first two will likely be between 45 to 60 minutes. Ravelijn won't be an issue if you have made reservations for the medieval/hero's dinner. If you do want a roller coaster, The Baron and Vliegende Hollander are story-oriented.
Hope I didn't repeat stuff that you might have heard 100 times before;-)
Have a wonderful birthday and trip to the US, you two!
I always eat my hutspot with appelmoes. Love it btw with any kind of stampot
Ooh! We’ll have to try that.
Glad you enjoyed it! It is a great tradition. Btw residents can get the hutspot & herring for free… how cool is that
too bad the fair rides have gotten so expensive & there was less outdoor music.
So expensive! We'd imagine you'd need to spend quite a lot there.
Normally, Oliebollen season is between November 1st and January 1st (though in some cities, there is an extension to February 1st).
But at fairs like this, they always jack up the price. I have seen prices of 1 euro 75 for your standard oliebol which is about 75% too much if you ask me.
As a former student of Leiden university (chemistry), I recall that Leidens Ontzet was always this big.
You two made an awesome video of Leiden and Leidens ontzet. Nice to see that you really getting in to your new home town. Awesome. 👍🏻👍🏻💪🏻💪🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Nog gefeliciteerd Tracey ... 🎂😉
Bedankt, Danny!
Great to see you celebrating 3rd of October. It is something, isn’t it? Did you go and see the fireworks too? Those are not to be missed!
We saw them from our home! So nice.
I learned about hutspot (of stamppot) way back in the 70s and boy, I've never eaten plain mashed potatoes since, but even though there are a thousand ways to make it, I always thought that it included some kind of vegetable, smoked bacon bits, yummy brown gravy and a big Hema worst on top. Happy Birthday to Tracy and have a lovely trip to the States you two. Oh, if you like history, maybe you might be interested in visiting the Pilgrim Museum while in Leiden. I took a trip to Plymouth Rock shortly after having done so and it gave me the weirdest feeling of 'being there'. 🌹
The original hutspot from back then was made with parsnip coz patatoes hadn't make it yet to Europe.
@@maartjewaterman1193 Ohhhh oke .. dat wist ik niet. Bedankt
3 oktober has been this massive for as long as I can remember (though it was less so in 2020 for obvious reasons).
The name for the rebels you might have been looking for was 'watergeuzen'. 'Geuzen' was derived from the French word for 'beggars'. When part of the nobility plead with the governor of the Netherlands (the half-sister of the King) to stop the religious oppression, her advisor referred to them as such. The nobles then adopted 'geus' as what we still call a 'geuzennaam', that is a name that outsiders use in a derogatory way, adopted to call themselves in a proud way.
Oh, and 1574 was in the early years of the 80 year war, not at the end.
Thanks for filling in the blanks for us, we appreciate you!
@@TAndTGoDutch My pleasure. Trust you're having a great time back in the States catching up with family and friends.
I got to know about this event because I have been following Show & Marchingband K&G on RUclips and social media since like 2010. But I haven't been able to go there yet. But since I'm a marching drummer, I would only go there for the parade and tattoo. 😉
In fact Hutspot (= mixed dish litterally) is usually Mashed potato's with carrots and onion and beef stew. It is one of the beloved "stamppot" dishes in the Netherlands. The Netherlands was a farming and agricultural country so the old traditional food was calory-rich and easy to make cheap food. And although it is by definition not a subtle and refined food there is nothing to stop you upgrading it 🙂 My modernized version is mixing mashed potatos with cauliflower cooked-al-dente and seared spicy chorizo sausage pieces and the baking oil in which the sausage pieces were baked to a beautiful orange dish 🙂 And as an exception I eat this with a good squirt of good American ketchup which really fits this dish unexpectedly beautiful.
Loved the history lessons. Tracy is the kind of teacher I wish I had when I learned these facts in grade school that have since completely left my mind. I had no idea Ontzet was that big, looks like a blast! Love that you guys tried Hutspot. It's funny as I cook hutspot/stampot all the time in NYC and just this weekend had a conversation with a friend how its possible that all countries are represented by restaurants here and yet there is no real Dutch food. I wish we had a Stampot restaurant. I'm sure you know there are many kinds of Stamppot (with sauerkraut, beets, kale, endive and more modern versions with sweet potatoes, chorizo, etc) but the traditional Hutspot (commonly called wortelstamp) is often served with either rookworst (I'm sure you've seen at Hema or Albert Heijn) or braadworst. I think the version you had may be more traditional or local to Leiden. In the south I've always seen it with those other meats. In our family and region we would often add nutmeg (really makes it a special dish, and comes from the spice trade times) and an apple (to balance the savory flavors). Have fun in the states and with your family. Also, I loved the earrings. Very unique and popping design.
The stamppot with apple is called 'Hete bliksem' 'Hot lightning'. No idea why.
The 'rookworst' I associate more with 'boerenkool stamppot' (and some crispy bacon). Hutspot should be with klapstuk.
@@eefaaf ah, I thought Hete Bliksem is just with apple. I meant to say add to wortelstamp one apple, as a twist on wortelstamp more than an entirely different stamp. I understand the historic reference to klapstuk (Brisket) but for some reason they sell rookworst almost always with wortelstamp where I grew up. I can't say I dislike it, but I need to try it one time with klapstuk. It does sound like a good combo.
@@dennisd9875 My mother used to make it with sucadelappen instead. But please don't add reuzel as a former neighbour of ours used to do.
Bedankt, Dennis!
Happy b-day!
Fact: The original hutspot didn't have potatoes but beans, and carrots and onions of course . The potato hadn't find its way to Northern Europa yet.
It was probably parsnip (pastinaak) instead of potatoes.
Maybe a new 'hotspot' the city of Alkmaar, north of Haarlem. They celebraded each year the same like in Leiden but in 1572 begins the victory of Alkmaar. It's a nice city like Leiden with the beautiful historical citycentrum.
Happy Birthday Tracy you have such a beautiful red hair, anyway enjoy your Leiden ontzet weekend❤
"ontzet weekend"? What does that mean?
Thank you so much Connie!
That cannal jumping looks a lot like fierljeppen that a tipical frisian sport
Maar in Leiden hebben ze daar "Geen kaas van gegeten". 🤣😂
Hoi Tracey,
Je zegt 3 oktober bijna in de Leidse taal.
Veel succes alle twee met de Nederlandse taal.
(Daarna kan je altijd nog Leids leren.
The king? You appearently missed out on the Dutch Republic. No, the king was king Philip II of Spain, Willem van Oranje was his former steward who was appointed stadtholder by parliament and led the rebellion against his tyranny which would become the 80-years war. The reason of the rebellion was primarily that both Dutch catholics and protestants preferred religious tolerance while king Philip II sent the Spanish Inquisition.
The resulting Dutch Republic lasted until the Napoleontic occupation and only after Waterloo the Netherlands became a kingdom, with the royal family being remotely related to this stadtholder Willem van Oranje.
Yep, Hutspot is a lot like pot roast: onions carrots and potatoes. The meat is supposed to be 'klapstuk', but my mother used to substitute that with sucadelappen, and that's what I use for the pot roast as well. As you don't mash the pot roast, to me it's like a deconstructed hutspot. :)
Exactly!
When you guys say "3 oktober", your accent almost make it sound like a local Leiden accent lol.
I don't know if the Loempia stall is still there on the market, but that is a must go to if you are in Leiden. It's been there for as long as I remember (40 years+). I'm surprised you haven't been there yet while you live there...
Yes! We only recently found it, but so very delicious!
The best loemia stand from fu isn't there anymore
I was born in Leiden, and raised 8km away from it... all this looks familiar :) Anyway... how much Hutspot (usually: mashed potatoes, carrots, onioms. and klapstuk or 'regular' rundvlees (roast beef) .. ? :)
If you want something bigger than Kingsday...go to Carnival in Brabant. Its 5 days partyyyyy.
Or the 10 day Nijmeegse vierdaagsefeesten 😉
@@Iamsanni mwa thats fine..but more like a mars.
No that's the Vierdaagse. I am talking about the Vierdaagsefeesten 😉
Should check out alkmaars ontzet which will be on a sunday this year.
Thanks! That’s a great suggestion.
Imo the oliebollen are way to early. I personally start eating them begin December if not half.
Hence the expression Giving your right arm for someone. By the way, research the origin of April fools day and you will again find it in the 80 year war.
The meat is klapstuk, this is from - as it is called - the ‘short ribs’. I tried to send you a picture of where on the cow it sits, but Yt doesn’t allow links.
12:51 Leiden University has 34 thousand students. As Leiden has no more than about 125 thousand inhabitants, the impact is huge.
And that's excluding Hogeschool Leiden, another higher institution of learning. It's a "university" of applied sciences. A polytechnical, vocational '"university". Calling such a university is uncommon in the Netherlands, so I cannot write that down without double quotation marks.
But, anyway, it adds 13.5 thousand students more.
Also, we're not counting any staff here.
P.S. A range of members of the Dutch royal family studied at Leiden University, including the current king Willem Alexander.
And hmm.. hutspot. Potatoes, carrots, onions, some kind of meat and gravy. May contain even more than that. The historical one in Leiden contained parsnip. Healthy and nutritious winter food. But I also like it in the summertime.
You mentioned hutspot tasted the same as pot roast in the US. Could it be also from Dutch origine ? I saw this receipt on the internet: WHAT IS A DUTCH OVEN POT ROAST?
A "pot roast" is a braised beef dish that's made by searing a big, tough cut of beef (usually an inexpensive roast) and then slowly cooking the beef in a covered dish called a Dutch oven. In America, this dish is often called a "Yankee Pot Roast," and is served with carrots and potatoes or other vegetables. Slowly roasting a tough cut tenderizes the meat, resulting in succulent beef and rich liquid that's perfect for gravy.
The word Yankee is derived from the Dutch first names Jan and Kees, which during the time of New Amsterdam were the most common Dutch male names.
Hutspot met klapstuk...lekker..mmmm
Super lekker!
@@TAndTGoDutch klapstuk=draadjesvlees=sukadelap in the supermarket,it takes 3 hours to cook, that's a disadvantage, but it's worth it,lekker 3.0
I thought hutspot was pretty much the only thing the poor Leidenaars had to eat. Boiled ham, carrots and mash. Love it.
Not pork,.. beef. The tougher kind that you use for stew. And the interesting thing is that the story goes that it was what they found in the enemy camp if I remember well. So it may be considered a Spanish dish. The carrots weren't orange yet I think.
@@chubbymoth5810 yep, by Cornelis Joppensz. Also keep in mind that the potato (which brought about a huge population increase in Eurasia) was only just introduced to Continental Europe. It would be an experience to cherish, finding the nutrient rich food after a long and hard siege.
yeah , only we had no king, it was prince Willem of Oranje, William de Silent who founded the university, his ancesters where Stadholders en later kings and Queens, but first is was the only republic in europe in times of dictator kings.
Canal jumping as you called it is actually fierljeppen, the Frisian national sport - far leaping in literal translation
Polsstokverspringen is the Dutch name in Holland and Utrecht where the sport is also practiced. It is not only a Frisian sport. Translated in English it would be pole vault long jump, instead of pole vault high jump, which is an Olympic sport.
Frisian is closer to (old) English than Dutch is, and you can see that here, especially in the 'ljep'='leap' part.
Hutspot is the only Dutch dish I have been detesting since I was little. Each time I came home and my mother was cooking it, the smell alone made me sick to the stomach and it still does. I have been severly traumatized for life coz I got forced to finish the entire plate my mother served me. 😛
I love haring and wittebrood though.
Oh blasphemy! LOL you have weird taste buds, but I bet that's fun
If you want to sound like real Leienaars like my mother's family you should use your thickest American accent and say: "drrree toberrr" :)
William of Orange wasn’t king but instead he was stadtholder (governor). Technically the Netherlands was still part of the Spanish Empire but after the Peace of Munster it became an independent country called the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands AKA the Dutch Republic. With no king. Sort of like how George Washington became president and not king.
Its the oldest university in the Netherlands. And the town got also stadsrechten, so the town became an importent City
Oh sorry, one more thing. It wasn’t that the Leidenaren didn’t have anything else to eat, they were literally starving. There was nothing to eat, because they were trapped behind their own walls. But as soon as they saw that the Spaniards were fleeing from the cold and damp wetlands, a brave little boy (as the legend tells) named Jan Lieven, went through a small door in the walls to check if the Spaniards were really gone. At the Lammenschans (one of the posts) he found a deserted pot with solders food (hutspot) and waved the pot in the air as a sign that the enemy had really left and even better had left behind a pot of food. And this is why we still eat hutspot on the 3rd of October to commemorate that first meal after starvation. By the way, I used to live with my parents in Voorschoten which is one of the villages near the city of Leiden and I’d bike to Leiden on October 2nd to join in the festivities. After passing the little statue of Jan Lieven at the Lammenschans the smell of Hutspot would envelop me on the rest of my bike ride to the city, because every household in Leiden would make the stuff.
Thank you so much for all the information! We appreciate you!
The mistake of saying that William of Orange was the "King" that granted Leiden its university, would have cost you your life three centuries ago. He was "Stadthouder" (placeholder). Placeholder of who, you may ask? Of the King of Spain officially. But wasn't he fighting against the King of Spain? Yes, it is kind of confusing. But see it as the governor of New York fighting the American president, and never receiving a new title. In the 17th century there were heated debates about finding a king or being a republic, and it would have led to civil war, were it not that we were already at war with Spain.
hutspot??? Haring en wittebrood!
en klapstuk 😄
*the mayor is considered a hero... and an idiot. The reason the arm was potentially needed as food is that there was an earlier attempt at the siege, but when the Spaniards temporarily had other priorities he left the siege works up and did not have extra supplies stored for the city. A bit of preparation and no heroism would have been needed ;-) But still a nice story.
Thank you so much, that's very kind of you to say.
Hutspot 3 ingredients Onions ,carrots , Patatos ( the 1500 version no patatos where yet available so parsnip was used) some salt and pepper . and klapstuk ( brisket ) a little dimpel and ad the gravy . simple healthy and your full for the day as you can refry the leftovers in a pan and eat it with bread cold or hot. .
Other stampot dishes are quite filling and healthy to . Boerenkool ( kale ) Zuurkool ( sauerkrout) and raw Andive with bacon . stampot are the most popular .
Yum! We’re looking forward to trying and making all the variations.
I didn't know this about Leiden either until very recently. I was looking at homes there online and there was one available on DrieOktoberstraat. I just had to look up the importance of that date.
Happy belated birthday, Tracy.
Thank you so much!
its not bigger than kings day its onley in leiden bit dumb to say so but still a nice flog
They said "it's bigger than kingsday IN Leiden". Don't use the word dumb if you're not that smart either. :-)