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Posted: 09 Dec 2014

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Leidens Ontzet 2014 – Hutspot

Leidens Ontzet 2014 – Hutspot
On the eve of the Relief of Leiden, on October 2, traditionally hotchpotch is eaten, a dish made from carrot, onions and potatoes, served with stewed meat. The legend is that on October 2, 1574, a pot of hotchpotch was discovered on an abandoned Spanish fortification.
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 Michiel 2005
Michiel 2005 club
No, there were no potatoes back then.
9 years ago.
 Michiel 2005
Michiel 2005 club
According to the article the potatoes sent to Antwerp were quietly eaten by Luis de Quesada and his family and were not sent to Leiden to feed the army.
9 years ago.
 Michiel 2005
Michiel 2005 club
The article also states that if Quesada would have given or shared the potatoes with the botanist Clusius, who also lived in Antwerp at the time, he would have been famous.
9 years ago.
 Michiel 2005
Michiel 2005 club
The original hotchpotch was made with parsnip, but over the years, when the potato became the popular staple food, parsnip was replaced by potato, and there was nobody around from the 16th century to tell that it wasn't originally made with potatoes.

And Hawkins wrote in 1565 in his Voyages: "These potatoes be the most delicate rootes that may be eaten, and doe far exceede our passeneps or carets."
9 years ago. Edited 9 years ago.
 Michiel 2005
Michiel 2005 club
You should have told old mister Hawkins.
9 years ago.

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