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Please leave SURStrömmingen out of this, its not Christmas food, aargh it starts smelling in my nose....
catrina
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Från: Christian Stubø
Till: HPforGrownups at egroups.com
Skickat: den 18 december 2000 16:12
Ämne: [HPforGrownups] OT Norwegian Christmas-sweets (long; includes cruel jokes directed at Swedes ;-) )
In my previous post I referred mainly to the main-courses of the meal.
Of course, Norwegians have sweets, cakes and cookies for Christmas too
(and Christmas-crackers, at ca. USD3 for a package of six, last time I
checked - possibly with crappy gifts and crappier jokes, but still...).
First of all, let me warn that anyone who mocks our great tradition of
lutefisk, will be forced to spend a Spitsbergen night in a closed room,
the only company being an open barrel of Surstrømming... ;-)
Of cakes and cookies, there must be at least seven kinds. I will not
go in detail on these, except to note that on very common kind is
krum-cakes.
Among sweets and treats common in Norwegian Christmas is marsipan, nuts
and almonds, chocolates, homemade mints and clementines.
Some people wondered what rice-porridge is. It is made by boiling one
part rice and two parts water, till the water is gone, then add five
parts milk, and boil till it is thick (normally 40-50 minutes). Add a
pinch of salt, and serve steaming hot in deep dishes, with a lump of
butter in the middle and generous sprinkling of cinnamon and sugar.
You drink either 'saft' (a bit like Kool-Aidm but made from liquid
concentrate) or milk. Hulsholdningssaft (containing juice from apple,
cherry, grape and pear) is best for porridge.
Leftover porridge can be used for rice cream - just mix it with whipped
cream (the real thing - not the spray-can type). It is served with red
sauce, made from the type of saft described above. This is a common
desert for Christmas, as is icecream and homemade caramel pudding with
caramel sauce.
Fløtegrøt (which someone asked about) is made by melting butter, adding
flour and then milk. The name means cream-porridge (or pudding), and
it is also known as fløyelsgrøt (velvet porridge, or pudding). It is
served the same way as riceporridge.
A third porridge is sourcream porridge, a very rich dish. Butter is
not used, as one can 'skim' fat of the porridge while it is cooking.
It can have unpredictable effects on the digestive system. It is often
served on midsummernight, accompanied by flatbread (or crispbread, as
it is also known) and salted meat.
Gifts are kept in a large pile under the Christmas-tree in Norway. The
Christmas-tree is not put up until teh evening of december 23rd (Li'l
Christmas Eve), and in many families, children are not allowed to see
the tree until they wake up the morning of the 24th and enter the
living room, which, by magic it would seem, has been transformed from
chaos to Christmas, the only source of light being the tree itself.
For extensive information about Christmas around the odd corners of the
world, you may want to visit:
http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/christmasinternational
This is the 2nd or 3rd largest Christmas-group at Yahoo! clubs. They
would love to hear of Harry Potter-inspired Christmas-celebrations,
too, I am certain.
While I have your attention:
Some people ehre were going to cook some impressive English dinners.
Who were you, and may we hear how it turned out when it is all over?
Note: Surstrømming is, as far as I know, made from a Swedish
freshwater-fish, pickled and cured to the degree that it has started
fermenting (apparently the process includes burying it for a while in a
wooden barrel, though I may be mistaken on this). Tehre was a
ferocious exchange of newspaper-articles between Danish and Swedish
newspapers some years back, over a Swedish nuclear powerplant. It
ended with the Swedish threatening to dump plane-loads of Surstrømming
over the Danes. The Danes maintained that this would be a warcrime
according to international conventions (falling under the definition of
chemical warfare).
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"There are two trillion six-houndred and sixtyfive billion eight-houndred and sixtysix million, seven-houndred and fortysix thousand, six-houndred and sixtyfour litte devils in the world"
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Christian Stubø
Student of Technology, architectura navalis
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