My wife, our daughter Miriam and friend Tineke Bosch from Abbotsford and I spent New Years Eve at Delta Port Mission. That evening the ladies made oliebollen for the seafarers. The oliebol is a Dutch cousin of the doughnut. It's closest relative I would say is an apple fritter!
Eating Oliebollen on New Years Eve is an old Dutch tradition. Of course that evening there wasn't a Dutch seafarer in sight, only seafarers from India and The Phillippines. However the oliebol was a great success....... we couldn't make/fry them fast enough! I think it will be a good tradition to do again next year.
