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QUESTIONS

A PUDDING you

can whip up in

a flash. SERVES 4

Raw herring

down in one

Compiled by Charles Legge

TODAY’S RECIPE:

Apple crumble sundae

Method

QUESTION

The Dutch love

hagelslag —

chocolate sprinkles on toast. Do they

eat any other foods in an unusual way?

Hollandse nieuwe, new season

herring, or haring in Dutch, appear at the

beginning of June and are the cause for

much celebration in the Netherlands,

where the arrival of this treat is front-

page news.

Herring is prepared in the traditional

way: gutted on board fishing boats, leaving

the pancreas in place. Pancreatic enzymes

help preserve the fish, so the brine they are

stored in needs less salt. This gives Dutch

herring its unique flavour.

They should be eaten the Dutch way:

grab the raw herring by its tail, dip in raw

onions, throw your head back and swallow

whole. If this doesn’t appeal, herring can

be eaten in a bun with or without finely

chopped onion and/or sliced gherkins, a

so-called broodje haring.

Chips are standard fare around the

globe, but in the Netherlands there is a

great deal of regional pride associated

with how you eat your friet, frites, patat

or Vlaamse friet (French fries).

Variations include friet met satesaus:

fries with peanut sauce; friet speciaal:

with mayonnaise, (curry) ketchup and

onions; patatje joppie: with a mixture of

mayonnaise, ketchup and spices; and

patatje oorlog: with peanut sauce,

mayonnaise and raw, chopped onions.

The Dutch often have fries with a

sausage or frikandel, which is long, skin-

less and deep fried.

Another Dutch favourite is filet

americain — steak tartare, or seasoned

raw beef. Like hagelslag, it’s something

you wouldn’t usually associate with being

spread on toast. Not for everyone.

stamppot is lumpy, mashed potato and

a mixture of vegetables including sauer-

kraut (fermented cabbage), spinach,

swede, carrot, onion and kale. There is

usually a giant rookworst (smoked

sausage) perched on top. The right way

to eat it is to make a small hole in the

mash and fill it with gravy, known as a

kuiltje jus (little gravy pit).

Jean Franks, Ipswich, suffolk.

QUESTION

Have there ever

been husband

and wife astronauts?

NASA astronauts Mark Lee and Jan

Davis got married during training and

were launched into space together on the

space shuttle Endeavour in 1992.

This provoked a great deal of media

speculation about the possibility of the

couple having sex in space.

Their mission, STS-47, was the 50th

flight of the space shuttle and also

included Mae Jemison, the first African-

American woman to orbit the Earth. Lee

and Davis separated in 1999.

There have been other astronaut

married couples: Shannon Walker and

Andrew Thomas; Megan McArthur and

Robert Behnken; Robert ‘Hoot’ Gibson

and Rhea Seddon; Steve Nagel and Linda

Godwin; and Peter ‘Jeff ’ Wisoff and

Tammy Jernigan.

Julian stein,

Cheltenham, Glos.

CoSMoNAuT Valentina Tereshkova

became the first woman in space in June

1963. Five months later, she married
      fellow cosmonaut Andriyan Nikolayev,
      with the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev
      presiding at the ceremony.
      Bill Troughton, Clitheroe, lancs.

QUESTION

If England had

operated the

Salic Rule, where the throne can be

inherited only by a male, instead of

Mary I and Elizabeth I, who would

have reigned after Edward VI?

THIS would have been Henry Stuart,

Lord Darnley, the future husband of Mary

Queen of Scots, as there were no other

eligible male heirs. Darnley and Mary

Stuart were grandchildren of Margaret

Tudor, widow of James IV of Scotland,

mother of James V and the elder sister of

Henry VIII.

Darnley was the son of Matthew

Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox, and his wife,

Lady Margaret Douglas, Margaret

Tudor’s daughter by her second marriage

to Archibald Douglas. Mary Stuart was

the daughter of James V, who died in 1542

when she was six days old.

Briefly, Mary was Queen of France. Her

husband, Francis, the Dauphin of France,

succeeded his father, Henri II, in 1559,

but died a year later, aged 16.

Mary married Darnley in 1565 and their

son, the future James VI, was born in

June 1566. Darnley died in mysterious

circumstances a year later.

Henry VIII had stated in his will that,

after the deaths of his daughters,

presumably without heirs, the line of

succession would pass to a descendant

of his younger sister, Mary.

The Third Act of Succession effectively

barred any descendants of Margaret

Tudor from acceding to the throne. Henry’s

wishes were ignored by Elizabeth I when

she named Margaret’s grandson, James

VI, as her successor. He became James I

of England in 1603.

sue Hughes, Bedford.

LoRD Darnley was one of the most

notorious figures in Scottish history. The

grandson of Henry VIII’s sister Margaret,

he was 6ft 2in and extremely good

looking. He captivated Mary Queen of

Scots as soon as she set eyes upon him.

However, his personality failed to live

up to his looks. He was insufferably

spoilt, arrogant, idle and, when thwarted,

could be petulant and uncouth, with a

violent temper.

He was selfish and vain, spending

substantial sums on food and clothing.

He was often drunk and promiscuous,

being openly homosexual, resulting in

him contracting syphilis. He was

described as ‘mentally and morally weak,

and his imbecility was conjoined with

reckless courage... and fatal obstinacy’.

The marriage was a disaster. Darnley

was killed on February 9, 1567, when his

lodgings were destroyed by fire. Mary

married the Earl of Bothwell — thought

to have facilitated the ‘accident’.

Ian Beith, edinburgh.

: Is Dull in Perth & Kinross twinned

with Boring in Oregon? Are there

any other amusing town twinnings?

Heather Ross, Bridgnorth, shropshire.

: Who was the first British female

singer to perform behind the Iron

Curtain: Lulu or Helen Shapiro?

Michael Robertson,

oldmeldrum, aberdeenshire.

: Did Democrat Joe Biden have to

drop out of his previous run to be

U.S. President because of a

plagiarism scandal?

Peter smith, durham.

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Ingredients

Picture: MAARTEN WOUTERS

Going Dutch: How to eat herring

2 tbsp butter

4 Granny Smith’s

apples, peeled,

cored and diced

1 tsp ground

cinnamon

2 tbsp light brown

sugar

8 scoops vanilla

ice cream

2 ginger nuts

biscuits, crushed

1 In a small saucepan, melt butter over a

gentle heat and add apples, cinnamon and

sugar. Cook for ten minutes or until apples

have softened, but still hold their shape.

2 Split mixture between four sundae glasses

or bowls. Put two scoops of ice cream on top

of each, followed by crushed biscuits. Serve

while apple mix is still warm.

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