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To: driftless2

Well, you know how it is with anyone’s *soul food*. I am Jewish and my husband will not eat gefilte fish or chopped chicken liver. Too bad. More for me.

You know the following, but I include it for the non-locals:

Not any publicly served lutefisk. Some churches do hold lutefisk dinners, but they always offer meatballs, too.

Lefse is good if it is homemade and fresh with butter and sugar.

Meatballs with ginger and nutmeg. Very good.

Rommegrot. Sort of a Norsk sweet cream gravy. Not to my taste, but some folks like it. Better with salt and no sugar or cinnamon, IMO.

Bakery. Lots of wonderful, sugary, buttery cookies and fried cakes. Excellent.

My non-Norwegian MIL used to prepare my FIL’s Sytennde Mai lutefisk dinner on a separate stove in the basement, with all doors to the upstairs closed. We would be served beef roast, while he would have his lutefisk, complete w/a little paper Norwegian flag stuck in it. It just became a family tradition and sort of a joke. We all tasted it. Dunked in enough butter, it tastes better than it smells.

Grandma’s sandbaakles (almond cookies; better if made w/butter)could be used to pack bearings. They literally dripped lard. The kids used to have sandbaakle fights until they were stopped because the grease marks were difficult to remove.


35 posted on 02/24/2012 6:22:45 AM PST by reformedliberal
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To: reformedliberal
My step-daughter did a genealogy research on my side of the family, and to my eternal mortification (well, amazement), she found out I was about one percent Norwegian. Which might explain why I tolerate lutefisk, but will not seek it out. A younger sister of mine has a hubby who is almost 100% Norskie, and his mother would always serve Norwegian "delicacies" at Christmas dinners. A bowl full of lutefisk looks like very pale, pink jello. Tastes like fishy jello as well. Not inedible, but not something I looked forward to.

Now you mentioned your Jewish lineage, and I finally ate at a Jewish deli near Milwaukee about twenty years ago. Overall the food was excellent, and I'd have to say Jewish rye bread is the most delicious bread I've ever eaten. So I'll take Jewish food over Norskie food on the basis on the one meal in a kosher deli. I don't know, can chopped liver be worse than lutefisk? (smirk)

36 posted on 02/24/2012 6:43:50 AM PST by driftless2
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