[Sca-cooks] Lutefisk and strange dreams...

[Huette von Ahrens]

Yummmmm.... pickled herring... Which kind?  

My Prussian grandmother who also lived by the shore of the Baltic, just the other side, also made
delicious pickled herring [the wine version] and absolutely scrumptious röllmops!  Unfortunately,
by the time I got interested in making either, my grandmother had ceased to cook and her memory
was no longer reliable... Sigh.  But one day, I hope, I will stumble on a recipe that will
come close...

Huette

--- "Judith L. Smith Adams" <judifer50 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Ah, lutefisk... my Norwegian grandmother and her sister LOVED their lutefisk (shudder) and used
> to dream of the next Sons of Norway *feast*... Both husbands kicked up such a ruckus if they
> even talked about the stuff that neither wife ever cooked it at home.  Aunt Sylvie, however,
> made the world's all-time great pickled herring - the kind that begins with a rock-hard
> dessicated substitute for a club.  As a kid, I wouldn't touch it, but once I reached the age of
> discernment, I discovered that pickled fish is one of the finer things in life... Regretfully,
> Aunt Sylvie never got round to teaching me to make it her way, but to this day - today, as I
> write - there is a quart jar of pickled herring in my frig, waiting for the next snack attack or
> need for an emergency meal... pickled herring, drool, must eat.... :)
>   Judith


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