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Holland’s Legacy of Dutch Burghers-by Ananda Pieter Keuneman Source:Ceylon-Ananda One would have thought that all good Burghers when they die go to Holland, but unfortunately that is not the case. Now they prefer to go to Australia to live and leaven that vast continent with their traditional  contributions, spiced, I am sure, with a little bit of culture of Sri Lanka.  Regular globe-trotters tell me that it is not possible these days to walk through the streets of Melbourne or Sydney without hearing the crackle of kokis  or scenting the delicate aroma of breudher studded with a thousand raisins or  listening to the sweet sounds of things like fuggetti and poffertjes struggling  to be born. Though a British Prime Minister, in a moment of pique once said:  “In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch is giving too little and asking too much,” the descendants of those who came here with the Dutch ...