RE: lutfisk

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From: " Cogswell " <radiantlife@...>

" Carma Paden " <carmapaden@...>, " "

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Cc: " Sol Lederman "

Subject: RE: lutfisk

Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 9:15:2 -0800

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Carma,

I lived in northern Wisconsin as I grew up, which has a big Norwegian

population. I remember every year there would be lutefisk dinners in

nearby towns, however I never went because I heard that food was so

strange

and strong tasting/smelling! I wish my parents had made me go so I

could

know what it was like at least.... Has anyone on the list eaten it?

(Sol could you post?)

> [Original Message]

> From: Carma Paden <carmapaden@...>

> < >

> Date: 1/8/2002 6:02:21 AM

> Subject: lutfisk

>

> This was posted on another list I'm on (the list has nothing to do

with

> nutrition or food; don't ask how this discussion got started!), and

it

> sounded like something that would interest this list:

>

> I've just been reading a kids book called Flaxen Braids (by

Annette

> Turngren) about a

> family who move from Southern Sweden to Northern Sweden, through an

> accident and

> poverty, to the wood mills, early in the 1900's and the author put

in a

> description of lutfisk.

> Book was written in 1937, but my copy was printed in 1963.

>

> Using salted, dried cod. Water run through wood-ash is lye- and

very

> " corrosive. "

>

> " Fru Lund set the lutfisk to soak in a wooden tub. Over each

layer

> of fish she sprinkled

> lime and wood-ashes. This was to make the fish soft and flaky. A

few

> days before

> Christmas she drew out the lime by soaking the fish in clear water.

> knew how

> good it would taste on Christmas Eve, served in its thick creamy

sauce.

> She had eaten it

> every Christmas Eve since she could remember. One could scarcely

> imagine what

> Christmas Eve would be like without lutfisk. "

>

>

> ~ Carma ~

>

> To be perpetually talking sense runs out the mind, as perpetually

> ploughing and taking crops runs out the land. The mind must be

manured,

> and nonsense is very good for the purpose. ~ Boswell

>

> Carma's Corner: http://www.users.qwest.net/~carmapaden/

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