Gelukkig Nieuwjaar to Our Friend, Fred!

Keep those wonderful trains running in 2020, and THANK YOU for your erudite knowledge of our hobby which you so graciously share with this Forum!  ☺

Thanks to Google, I can say, eet smakelijk! 

Tom 

Art,

Dank je wel. Een voorspoedig nieuwjaar voor jou en je familie vanuit Driehuis NL.

Oliebol and tinplate, a good looking combination.

Regards

Fred

Wouter's oliebol looks exactly like the sample in your photo minus the tinplate! His wife, Teresa, is a food stylist/photographer, but he makes the Dutch desserts.

Yum!  Kindly ship one carload of ollie  bollen and appel flapen, routed via ATSF, to Number 90, c/o Agent, Amarillo.  As soon as the car is placed at the dock, I'll get right down there and unload it. 

Happy New Year!

Fred: Do you make your ollie bollen with currants or raisins or both? I also understand some folks add cinnamon?

Don't forget the Stroopwafels and Bitterballen. 

Wash it all down with Carl Jeppensens "Maloort"!

Say those phrases three times after a shot or two of schnapps.  Or whatever they drink in Amsterdam.

Cheers!       W1

Bier is popular in the Netherlands. One of the most famous biers in the world, Heineken, is produced there.

This thread motivated me to visit Fred's web site- what a super body of work!  If you have not perused and bookmarked the site, do your self a favor and do it!

I echo the best wishes and thanks to Fred for his hard work and wonderful knowledge regarding our hobby.

PS: not so much train related but interesting information on the Netherlands and the home of our colleague Fred, if you are an amazon prime person (and who isn't?) search for the video "Admiral" and learn the history of Michiel de Ruyter.

Tinplate Art posted:

Fred: Do you make your ollie bollen with currants or raisins or both? I also understand some folks add cinnamon?

I would not know about the ingredients. My oliebollen came from the bakery of the local flour windmill; most ingredients are product from the mill I assume. I do not think cinnamon is used in oliebollen, but is used in appelflappen.

Back to trains. The local mill also has a dynamo such that it generates electricity  when moving on the wind. When this installation was officially introduced the first electricity was used to run a LGB train:

Regards

Fred

hokie71 posted:

This thread motivated me to visit Fred's web site- what a super body of work!  If you have not perused and bookmarked the site, do your self a favor and do it!

I echo the best wishes and thanks to Fred for his hard work and wonderful knowledge regarding our hobby.

Thank you for your kind words, it is always a pleasure to get positive reactions on what is just a hobby, but with much time spent on it (lucky I am a retired).

Regards

Fred

I drank Heineken bier for a bit after going through cancer and chemo therapy.  It was the first bottle of bier I ever saw that listed the ingredients on the bottle.  Water, malted barley and hops.  Simple.  I figured, that’s great, nothing unhealthy in that brew.  Unfortunately, after the chemo, drinking any bier makes me sick so I don’t touch it any of it anymore.  An occasional sip or two of bourbon.  I do like tasty desserts too.  And prewar standard gauge trains.

Cheers,       W1