[Sca-cooks] Janssen's Temptation- was Re: American Diet

[Radei Drchevich]

" A thousand Swedes ran through the weeds, at the battle of Copenhagen,

A thousand Swedes ran through the weeds, chasing one Norwiegian" - old
song

Traditions tend to make each of our ancestors more important then they
really were.

You say Potatoe, I say Turnip.

joy

radei


  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Phlip
  To: "Cooks within the SCA"
  Subject: [Sca-cooks] Janssen's Temptation- was Re: American Diet
  Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 21:53:19 -0400

  >
  >
  > Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...
  >
  > Anchovies have been adopted into some recipes that didn't
  > > originally include them, in part because things like sardellen
  (very
  > > big in German cookbooks prior to the 1950's or so), or the sweet
  > > pickled anchovies that have been supplanted by salted anchovy
  fillets
  > > in oil for the Swedish (or possibly Swedish-American) dish known
  as
  > > Janssen's Temptation, are no longer as readily available as they
  were
  > > 50 years ago.
  >
  > Hadn't run into the sardellan, but I'm reasonably sure that
  Janssen's
  > Temptation is originally a Swedish dish. While I first discovered
  it in a
  > Time-Life book, one of the ones that details various international
  cuisines,
  > and later rediscovered it in the NYT Cookbook, I was discussing it
  with a
  > Swedish blacksmith (in Sweden) and he assured me that it was a very
  common
  > and traditional Swedish dish- rather on the order of meatloaf for
  Americans.
  >
  > Saint Phlip,
  > CoD
  >
  > "When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
  > Blacksmith's credo.
  >
  > If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not
  a
  > cat.
  >
  > Never a horse that cain't be rode,
  > And never a rider who cain't be throwed....
  >
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