hard to believe the people who came up with lefse came up with lutefisk.
Posted on 12/19/2007 4:19:23 PM PST by SJackson
hard to believe the people who came up with lefse came up with lutefisk.
LOL, SJackson, I was just getting ready to ping Diana, then saw you did.
I did anyway, because if she cooks like this (which I suspect she does) I want her to go ahead and put that property in Wisconsin up for sale and get down here to Tennessee.
I’ve been working on Diana for about two years now to get on down here. “Bout got her convinced.
CrappieLuck has been recruited to help me in these efforts. I think he’ll agree to help me bribe her with some good crappie fishing tips (we might even show you our best spots).
All I had to do was tell him Diana makes her own beer and I think he’s recruited (grin).
I used to get Lefse from an old Norwegian bakery in Brooklyn of all places.
Homemade beer and good eats?
I’ll get the truck gassed up. She may need help with the move.
Scandanavian Brooklyn, that's funny. I think I've seen just about every ethnic group represented as being from Brooklyn/NY in a war movie except Scandanavians. I hate crepes, but I bot a crepe pan a few years back on sale just to make lefse.
I don't fish much anymore, they're way to messy to clean based on what you're left with. I regret it though, every spring I say this year.
The Scandanavians (Finns and Norwegians) came in the late 19th/early 20th century to work in the shipyards and as longshoreman. The originally settled in Red Hook and points south, but eventually made it down to the comparatively more prosperous environs of Bay Ridge, where a handful are still hanging on.
It was Finnish immigrants in Brooklyn that introduced the concept of cooperative housing to the United States.
Thanks, I didn’t know that, I thought they mostly moved to the upper midwest.
The Swedes originally settled Delaware (Fort Cristina, modern day Wilmington), but left after some bad harvests. There was even a sizeable Finnish settlement in Lake Worth, FL that, alas, is no more.
You ain’t heard nothing yet. She makes homemade bratwurst (sp), can kill, skin and gut a deer, and the first post she replied to me was explaining how she had cleaned dozens of pheasants that day.
Diana is the ultimate nature gal. She believes in killin’ and grillin.’
She’s probably skinning some critter right now, that’s why she hasn’t replied yet.
What gets me is she does this in her yard in six foot of snow. Now that’s tough!!!!
Aw, why don’t these ladies live near me? I loved lefse when I spent a year in Sweden as a child, and haven’t tasted it since.
Truth is, I am a catch and release type, not much into the eating part.
I have a cajun brother in law who puts every fish he catches in the freezer, or cooks them immediately. His fish frying technique is legendary.
He also makes his own spice mixture. His spice recipe puts Tony Chachere (sp)to shame.
Thanks for posting the recipe link. I’m going to try some of those.
Lefse ping...
Heh... :~) We’re going up to make lefse Saturday I think.
I read the recipe, it sounds yummy.
I read the recipe, it sounds yummy.
Roger that. :-)
I’m especially craving lefse this year. Dunno why.
What you wanna bet these ladies in this story have at least one of grandpa’s rolling pins?
Mark
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