{"id":4287,"date":"2016-05-25T17:35:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T17:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/?p=4287"},"modified":"2016-05-25T17:35:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T17:35:40","slug":"birthday-cake-or-birthday-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/birthday-cake-or-birthday-pie\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Cake or Birthday Pie?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Limburg, pie is king! When there is something to celebrate, pie is the one who is always present. Correction:\u00a0<em>vlaai<\/em> is always present!<\/p>\n<p><em>Vlaai<\/em> has definitely been something that has grown on me. I used to never think of pie; now, I crave it. Perhaps it is the\u00a0<em>slagroom-<\/em>art pies have or the fact that everytime it is someone&#8217;s birthday, I am offered a slice. Regardless of the reason:\u00a0<em>vlaai is koning!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here are a few interesting facts about Limburgse<em>\u00a0vlaai:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>1. Birthday pie<\/p>\n<p>In the southern-most region of the lowlands, people don&#8217;t have birthday cakes with candles and sweet inscriptions made out of frosting. Here, birthdays are celebrated with\u00a0<em>rijstevlaai\u00a0<\/em>or\u00a0<em>abrikozenvlaai <\/em>or whatever flavor you might like. Whenever you are invited to celebrate a birthday, you are offered\u00a0<em>vlaai<\/em> and something to drink. People happily eat their\u00a0<em>vlaai<\/em>, leave an evenlope with money, and then head on home.<\/p>\n<p>If you work,\u00a0your colleagues will require you to take\u00a0<em>vlaai<\/em> for everyone. Yes&#8230;you take your own birthday pie to work. In Limburg, where I live, people are quite demanding in regards to the quality of\u00a0<em>vlaai<\/em>. It must be from a\u00a0<em>bakkerij<\/em>\u00a0(never from the grocery store) and, of course, everyone has very strong opinions about which one is really the best.<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0<em>Met of zonder slagroom?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When you order a slice of this celebratory pastry, waiters usually ask\u00a0<em>met\u00a0<\/em><em>of zonder slagroom?<\/em> If you say\u00a0<em>met<\/em> a delicious dollop of whipped cream will accompany your\u00a0<em>vlaai<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>3. Varieties<\/p>\n<p>Each\u00a0<em>bakkerij<\/em> in the Netherlands has its own variety of pie. You can find\u00a0<em>appelvlaai<\/em> (apple pie),\u00a0<em>abrikozenvlaai<\/em> (apricot pie),\u00a0<em>rijstevlaai\u00a0<\/em>(rice pudding pie),\u00a0<em>kersennvlaai<\/em> (cherry pie),\u00a0<em>aardbeienvlaai<\/em> (strawberry pie),\u00a0<em>appelkruimelvlaai<\/em> (apple crumb pie),\u00a0<em>appelnotenvlaai<\/em> (apple and nuts pie),\u00a0<em>roomvlaai\u00a0<\/em>(cream pie), etc. All these and more (I am sure I missed a lot) have their own variations whether it is the way the fruit is displayed or if it has\u00a0<em>slagroom<\/em> or\u00a0<em>kruimelen<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite is <em>abrikozenvlaai<\/em> <em>zonder slaagroom en zonder kruimelen.\u00a0<\/em>Which\u00a0<em>vlaai<\/em> is your favorite?<\/p>\n<p>The following video gives a brief history of the\u00a0<em>limburgse vlaai<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Weetjes over de Limburgse vlaai\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KgXTfkVDdDg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And if you want to try a recipe yourself&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bereiding van ambachtelijke Limburgse puddingkruimel vlaai\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xca-MPNvQQo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Limburg, pie is king! When there is something to celebrate, pie is the one who is always present. Correction:\u00a0vlaai is always present! Vlaai has definitely been something that has grown on me. I used to never think of pie; now, I crave it. Perhaps it is the\u00a0slagroom-art pies have or the fact that everytime&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/birthday-cake-or-birthday-pie\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[60713],"tags":[358682,444939,10149,111400],"class_list":["post-4287","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture-2","tag-dutch-culture","tag-limburg-pie","tag-netherlands","tag-pie"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4287"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4290,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287\/revisions\/4290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}