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''Hutspot'' (Dutch, ) ''hochepot'' (French) or hotchpotch in English, is a dish of boiled and mashed potatoes, carrots and onions with a long history in traditional Dutch cuisine. ==History of the dish== According to legend, the recipe came from the cooked bits of potato left behind by hastily departing Spanish soldiers during their Siege of Leiden in 1574 during the Eighty Years' War, when the liberators breached the dikes of the lower lying polders surrounding the city. This flooded all the fields around the city with about a foot of water. As there were few, if any, high points, the Spanish soldiers camping in the fields were essentially flushed out. The anniversary of this event, known as ''Leidens Ontzet'', is still celebrated every October 3 in Leiden and by Dutch expatriates the world over. Traditionally, the celebration includes consumption of a lot of ''hutspot''. ''Hutspot'' is normally cooked with ' in the same vessel. ''Klapstuk'' is a cut of beef from the rib section. It is marbled with fat and responds well to slow cooking in ''hutspot''. If ''klapstuk'' is not available, then smoked bacon is commonly substituted. The carrots used are generally of the type known as '' winterpeen (winter carrots)'', which give the dish its distinctive flavour ordinary carrots cannot match. The first European record of the potato is as late as 1537, by the Spanish conquistador Juan de Castellanos, and it spread quite slowly throughout Europe from thereon. So the original legend likely refers to what the Dutch call a 'sweet potato' or ''pastinaak'' which is a parsnip; this vegetable played a similar role in Dutch cuisine prior to the use of the potato as a staple food. The term ''hutspot'' (which can be roughly translated as "shaken pot") is similar to the English term ''hotchpot'' and Middle French ''hochepot'', both of which used to identify a type of meat-and-barley stew that became synonymous with a confused jumble of mixture, later referred to as 'hotchpotch' or 'hodge-podge'. In noting the etymological connection, the Oxford English Dictionary records 'hochepot' as a culinary term from 1440, more than a century before the Siege of Leiden.〔 In ''Melibeus'' (''c''1386), Chaucer wrote, "Ȝe haue cast alle here wordes in an hochepoche", but that early use probably referred to its legal sense in English law (recorded from 1292) as a blending of properties. Later uses certainly referred to its culinary sense.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/AGZ8246.0001.001/509:10.7 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hutspot」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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