SC - Mashed foods

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- -Poster: Jean Holtom <Snowfire at mail.snet.net>

>One possibility is that it's a Viking thing. In Ireland there is an
>expression about doing a thorough job (IIRC), about beetling one's
>champ. Apparently a beetle is the pestle of a huge mortar, a tool
>apparently introduced all over the British Isles by the Vikings, and one
>which, incidentally, is excellent for mashing boiled vegetables.  
>
>I wouldn't want to go and base a master's degree thesis on this, it's
>just something Malachi McCormick mentions in one of his books about
>Irish foods.

That's really interesting!  Are there any Scandinavian recipes where they do 
the same sort of thing I wonder?

BTW the nearest town to us in Wales was a Viking port - Swansea which cames 
from Sweyn's Ey.  

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