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

[Judith L. Smith Adams]

Huette von Ahrens <ahrenshav at yahoo.com> wrote: 
  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

Greetings, kindred fish-fancier and cousin from over-the-sea!
    
  Sylvia also made the winey sweet-sour kind, and it is still my favorite, though there's nothing much wrong with the sour-creamed version...  I wish I remembered more about it, or had eaten fewer jars of the commercial stuff - my taste memory has blurred in the decade or so since Sylvie passed on.  
   
  Are "röllmops" another pickled fishy thingy or something completely different??  (Pardon me, but I've been watching the Monty Python "memorial" on PBS)
   
  Does Prussia make anything like lefse, a potato-dough flatbread, baked but not browned, and eaten with lashings of butter??
   
  One of these days, I'm going to tackle salt cod, herring, et al, as a project of some kind.  I found a lovely-sounding fish pie recipe in a modern Jewish cookbook, and remember there being lots of references to fish pies in-period...  Fish patties, fish dumplings, quenelles... they must all have period antecdents, I figure...  At some point, I suppose it'll be de rigeur to at least sample some lutefisk... Uff da!
   
  Judith



		
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