Muisjes
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Muisjes are Dutch aniseed comfits, used as a traditional bread topping, often to celebrate the birth of a baby. They are traditionally eaten on beschuit, or rusk, though it is also customary to eat th
Dutch rusk with orange muisjes
Dutch cuisine
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Dutch cuisine is formed from the cooking traditions and practices of the Netherlands. The country's cuisine is shaped by its location on the fertile Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta at the North Sea, giving
Muisjes
…Muisjes (Dutch: ; lit. 'little mice') are Dutch aniseed comfits, used as a traditional bread topping, often to celebrate the birth of a baby. They are traditionally eaten on beschuit, or rusk, though…
Gouda cheese
How Hollandse Nieuwe is eaten
Still life with turkey pie, oysters, lemon and grapes by Pieter Claesz (1627).
Vincent van Gogh, The Potato Eaters (1885): peasants from his home village Nuenen having dinner