[Sca-cooks] And in the "Be Careful What You Wish For" department...

[Kingstaste]

I have watched a couple of videos on the eating of said fish product, and
both times they carved it off of the chunks hanging in the curing house and
ate it right there.  The townsfolk ate it in the tavern on slices of brown
bread and the tasty beverage of their choice.  I don't know of a recipe for
cooking it, none of the shows on Iceland that I've seen mention that.  
You should try some, and tell us all about it in detail, so we can live
vicariously through you!
Heh heh heh
Christianna

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Tacitus Adamantius
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Subject: [Sca-cooks] And in the "Be Careful What You Wish For" department...

Hullo, the list!

Remember a day or two ago, when I joked about being threatened with  
haakarl?

I just got a phone call from a friend of mine, who has been presented  
with everybody's favorite fermented shark fillet, and is wondering  
what to do with it, apart from burying it in the back yard (I pointed  
out that that had evidently been tried already, and didn't work).

 From what I can find online, the flesh is generally eaten trimmed of  
all dark outer layers, cut into small cubes, and eaten with perhaps  
dark bread and butter, and, of course, ice-cold akvavit or brannevijn.

Nanna Rögnvaldardöttir's book on Icelandic food says pretty much the  
same, and doesn't give a lot of additional detail. It appears my  
friend has a packet of already-trimmed, diced, white cubes of fish. Do  
people agree that this appears to be as processed as it needs to get  
before eating safely?

He's very smart, my friend. He says I have to come out and help him  
eat the stuff, so I'd better be sure.

Adamantius






"Most men worry about their own bellies, and other people's souls,  
when we all ought to worry about our own souls, and other people's  
bellies."
			-- Rabbi Israel Salanter

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