Posted on 11/13/2015 10:10:14 AM PST by EveningStar
With an unofficial slogan of Take the Risk, Try Lutefisk, it's a pretty safe assumption that dining on lutefisk is not your average meal. That's what's printed on the aprons at Sons of Norway, Norrona Lodge No. 50 in Van Nuys, and you can kind of see why.
A traditional Scandinavian dish of lye-treated whitefish, lutefisk is found most places where there's a decent-sized Scandinavian population, and it's part of the seasonal table: Thanksgiving to Christmas is considered lutefisk season.
Lucky for you, the dish is also available once a year at a lutefisk and meatball community dinner at the Sons of Norway lodge's Norrona chapter, where it's been dished up since the mid-1940s. One member has attended the dinners since 1951.
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That piece of Cod that surpasses all human understanding....
Really?
It’s fish flavored jelly! Yummy.
Glug will kill that lutefisk taste too:
GLUG
2 qt. port wine
2 qt. burgundy
2 c. white sugar
2 c. raisins
2 doz. blanched almonds
1 tbsp. whole cloves
8 sticks cinnamon
8 cardamom seeds
Tie cloves, cinnamon, cardamom seeds together. Put 1 quart water over tied spices, sugar and raisins. Let simmer until raisins are plump. Add the wine. When mixture bubbles around edges, add 2 cups brandy. Stir until it begins to smoke. More brandy may be added if you want more of a stick in it. Serve with a couple of almonds and raisins in a warm cup. Serves 32 (6 oz. cups).
My favorite Scandihoovian dish is dessert rice pudding.
As a German strong coffee drinker, their version of coffee—as weak as tea & with egg shells brewed in it, confounds me.
Swedish potato sausage has the same effect on me as Beefarini on Kramer’s horse. Just thought I’d share that.
Mmmmm. Jellyfish!
Lutefisk smells like catfood and Drano.
Actually...
Fish jelly. A difference with (quite the) dis-STINK-tion.
I’ll try anything once, for the adventure of it.
Why would you kill good fish?
Have never tasted Lutefisk and would be interested to hear from someone who actually has. My suspicion is, as with Haggis, which is friggin’ delicious, most if not all of the people who joke about it have never tried it and their opinions are based on how disgusting the ingredients and preparation sound. And that’s OK. Lye preserved white fish sounds pretty awful. But one thing that separates a city from a country person is familiarity with the fact that the process of making almost any kind of dish involving meat is at some point potentially stomach churning. But the end result may still be quite tasty. Of course, it’s also possible Lutefisk is just as disgusting as it sounds.
My grandfather was 100% Norwegian. His sister brought Krumkaka to every holiday gathering-thankfully! Never was there any lutefisk.
I tried lutefisk once at a church dinner years ago. I could only make myself take a tiny bite so I think I tasted just gravy. But, as I am part Norwegian I thought I should eat it at least once.
I wonder if there is research on the safety of eating lye. ☺
haha
“There’s a decent-sized Scandinavian population in Van Nuys...? Last time I went thru Van Nuysio it was not Scandinavian...Ole! “
The remaining Norwegians hang out at the Senior Center.
As for fish in Europe, I remember salted fish in markets, with heads still on and alongside game and foul, feet still on.
We could have purchased salted fish on the sand at the beach in Zandvoort Holland, to go with fries, but we didn’t. Just got the fries, called Pommes Frites, delicious with mayonnaise.
Yep.
I tried it ONCE in high school, a friend of mine had a Norwegian country girl mother who had somehow acquired some around the holidays and asked me if I wanted to try some.
My friend warned me not to, but I had a fork full anyway.
Worst part was I kept burping and getting that catfood/lye taste and smell all over again for the next day.
Never again.
Ewww.
Wow! That stuff is better than lobster or King crab!!
EXCELLENT! I will use that one to further my cause to put lute in all school lunch programs!
Get yourself some green persimmons. It's a singular experience.
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