Bicycling for Raisins

The Dutch are bakers, and one of the delicacies of Dutch baking is "krentenbollen" aka "Raisin Buns". You can find them in bakeries in every town and at every market day in every town.

One of Linda's hobbies is to read blogs by Dutch bakers and she recently ran across a recipe for krentenbollen that promised to be like the ones you can get at bakeries in the Netherlands.

 I think Linda hit a home run with these. She never bakes anything that isn't wonderful, but these may the closest we've had to the real thing without traveling on a plane for hours to get to the Netherlands.

Spread these with real butter and they simply melt in your mouth. Of course the distribution of raisins in a particular bun is pretty random and this one looks like it's a bit lacking. The Dutch would say that "you need a bicycle to get between the raisins" because there are so few.

This one is much better! Well, the other one wasn't really bad - the raisins were just hiding right under where the cut was made.

Even though we didn't need a bicycle to find the raisins in our krentenbollen, we did actually go bicycling for raisins. It was a beautiful day of 65F and the wind wasn't at gale-force speeds so we rode our bikes to the grocery store to get raisins. The ride was fun, and the krentenbollen were well worth the trip.