|
God Jul!
They are all Jul foods, as Jul is just Yule in Norwegian, ya! We usually do our meal Christmas Eve after our candlelight service at church.
Fattigman - cookies that are very flat diamond shaped and deep fried, with flavors of cognac, cinnamon and cardamom.
gingerbread reindeers - we roll the gingerbread and fold it over itself, and it makes antlers and we add a small cinnamon candy for a nose, and others for the eyes.
rosettes - we have these various shaped irons that screw onto wood handles with metal threading and you dip the iron into batter then into hot oil. It fries into really pretty shapes, snowflakes, stars, roses, and then we cover them with powdered sugar.
Julekake - Norwegian Christmas bread, has various dried fruits in it, and cardamom
lutefisk - It is dried cod soaked in LYE. It is then served with melted butter and I cannot choke that mess down. Some people top it with bacon, mustard, white sauce, or something else. I'll eat open faced sandwiches or meat & cheese on flat rye bread instead of lutefisk. (luckily we don't eat this, though many people do)
fruit soup - It would be apples, raisins, dried apricots, and perhaps prunes, cooked in water, spices, and WINE.
Jul Glögg - one liter red wine, one liter Aquavit, and spices wrapped in cheesecloth (cinnamon, cardamom, raisins, orange peels, sugar, cloves, ginger, almonds, nutmeg, figs) heat slowly, DO NOT let it boil. Kind of like mulled wine, very very tasty times.
|