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Hollandaise takes the phenomenon of Hollandmania, a unique period in the history of the Netherlands and the UK, as its starting point. The British experienced a craze for all things Dutch after the ascent to the throne of William of Orange and his wife Mary as co-sovereigns of the kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1689, remembered by some as “the glorious revolution”. For the subsequent 50 to 100 years, there followed an intensive Dutch influence in British culture in everything from gardens and ceramics to fashion and painting.

As fitting coincidence to the completion of the …