Aberdeen crulla

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Preparation info
  • For

    12-14

    crullas
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Oats in the North, Wheat from the South: The history of British Baking, savoury and sweet

By Regula Ysewijn

Published 2020

  • About

Many sources claim that the Abdereen crulla comes from Dutch krulla or krullers, but I haven’t been able to find a similar twisted bake with that name anywhere in my historical Dutch cookbooks.

The US and Canada have twisted fritters called ‘Crullers’, which could explain the name, as many Dutch words were adapted and used in a different context than Dutch people would use them. A ‘cruller’ would be someone who curls things, not a pastry that is curled. In Southern Swe