roggebrood

Updated: June 4, 2025

It is no joke for these children, who have to leave their little beds, frequently under the tiles, at 5 or 6 a.m., or earlier, summer and winter, to gulp down some hot coffee, or what is conveniently called so, to swallow a huge piece of the well-known Dutch 'Roggebrood, or rye-bread, and then to hurry, in their wooden shoes, through the quiet streets of the town to their place of work.

P. M. Hough - Dutch Life in Town and Country