[8mmMauser]

Well, Mom kept her kitchen secrets to herself and didn’t figure we boys would know a darned thing about cooking anyway. So that is it. You get the above ingredients and make lefse out of it. I guess anyone who makes lots of lefse would know what to do with it, but I sure don’t.

Mom’s next recipe is for fattigmand and that is even more short. It is blank. But I sure liked it when she made it, and miss it.

[T'wit]

Fattigman Bakkels
(Poorman's donuts/cookie)

Beat three eggs to a froth; add 3 teaspoonfuls of sugar, one tablespoonful of cream, and a pinch of salt; put in flour enough to make a stiff dough; roll as thin as paper; cut into any shape you like (triangle,squares) and fry in hot lard like doughnuts. (Just a few seconds)

[metmom]

:(

My sister got a couple family recipes from my grandmother. She sat down and watched her make the stuff one day and estimated (pretty well). But she didn’t get her homemade bread. :((

[T'wit]

You can do doughnuts or such very easily with the "tube" doughs readily available in any grocery. Biscuit dough, e.g. Get the big ones and cut out the doughnut hole. Cook in hot oil, but not very hot. They have to kind of simmer for two or three minutes, or else they either get too brown before the inside cooks (ugh). Then blot on a paper napkin and roll in cinnamon sugar. Not diet food.

You could probably use pie crust dough to make fattigman. My mother used left over crust to make nifty little tarts.

I'm going to explore these fine points later today :-)

[T'wit]

Here's something else from Norway that might be of particular interest in Free Republic :-)

Troll cream (Trollkrem)

1 egg white
1 pt cleaned lingonberries
1/2 c sugar

Mix and beat until thick, light and fluffy. Can be served with vanilla sauce. If it's too tart, try adding a bit of crushed banana. Lingonberry jam can be used instead of fresh lingonberries.

(The recipe does not tell us how to use Trollkrem, but it would be lovely on fattigman. On a fresh fruit salad, too.)