Glows Favorite Recipes
Norwegian Recipes
Recipes with a Norwegian Flavor, Lefse and Potato Cakes made the Norwegian Way and other treats of an immigrant family from Norway
My dad's Norwegian
heritage determined a lot of the recipes that we used when I was
growing up--especially around
Christmas time. The following are
just a few of those favorite recipes. Remember this is a dieter's
nightmare and
over the years these goodies actually became less
and less and the large quantities were not made anymore.
Norwegian Lefse or Potato Cakes (Germans and Americans call it Potato Pancakes)
5 large potatoes (pared)
1/2 light cream
3 T butter or margarine
1 t salt flour
Boil potatoes until tender, drain, and mash or rice. Beat in cream,
butter and salt. Cool to room temperature. Use
1/2 c flour for
each cup of potatoes, mix well. Roll out a heaping tablespoon of
dough (size of an egg) on a well-
floured surface to a 6-inch
circle. Repeat for all the dough. Heat griddle. Cook lefse,
browning, turn. Place
between paper toweling or wax paper to keep
soft. Serve; spread with butter or sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.
Kumla
To make the "kumla" grate 4 large potatoes into a
mixing bowl and add a tsp. of meat broth for each potato. Sift 4
cups flour, a tsp. of salt, a tsp. of baking powder, mix with
potatoes. Mixing all together to a soft though firm
batter and
shape into spoon size balls.
Moisten hands in cold water,
then take a spoonful and put it in the left hand. Place a 1/2 inch
cube of fat or "dut"
taken from the meat in the center of the
kumla, folding the mixture over the fat with the right hand and drop
the
kumla into the hot meat and broth. Repeat using all the
potato mixture. A little more flour may be needed if the
potatoes
are very large.
Slowly simmer a piece of ham or corned beef
in plenty of water for about 4 hours or until tender. Then put in
potato
dumplings and cook about another hour. Ladle up and serve
dumplings with plenty of butter.
Lutefisk
3 1/2 to 5
lbs. of lutefisk
2 quarts of water
1/3 cup of salt
Pull
skin off fish and cut into desired pieces. Bring water and salt to a
boil. Place fish in and let it cook gently
for about 5 minutes.
Melt about 1/2 lb. of butter in a small saucepan until hot, and
serve separately.
Lutefisk can be soaked in salt water prior to cooking.
Rosettes
Whip 2 eggs with a fork; add 1 tsp. sugar, 1/4 tsp. salt, 1 c milk and 1 c flour.
Beat until
smooth. Let stand 1 hr before baking. Bake with Rosette iron in very
hot fat (oil). Serve plain or dust
with powdered sugar.
Kling
4 cups flour
1/2 lb. shortening
1 tsp. salt
2 cups
water
2 eggs beaten
6 T milk
Mix like pie crust the
flour, salt and shortening. Add water and knead will. Divide into
balls the size of a
biscuit. Roll each one out as thin as
possible on floured board. Bake on grill. When slightly browned,
brush the
top with the egg and milk that has been mixed together,
then bake until this mixture is set. Turn and bake on other
side
until lightly browned. Dampen the baked rounds with lukewarm water
to soften. Spread with butter and sprinkle
with sugar. Fold or
cut into triangles. Keep covered with damp cloth so as not to dry
them out.
Norwegian Rice Pudding Or Grout
1 cup rice (not
minute)
2 quarts milk
1 pint half and half
2 tsp. salt
1/2 cup butter
Wash rice and soak for about an hour. Heat the
milk to boiling and put the rice in and stir, stir and stir (may be
cooked in a double boiler). Add the salt and when the pudding
becomes thicker add the half and half and more milk may
be added.
Put butter in just before taking off the heat and stir well until
melted. Serve in dishes and sprinkle
sugar and cinnamon and
optional raisins on top.
So here are my Grandma's Sugar Cookies
My cousin Beverly sent my Mom and
Dad the following recipe saying, "There wasn't a time that your
mother, Uncle
Gilbert, didn't have sugar cookies in the pantry
for us. She was such a sweet lady." This lady was Bertha Hillestad,
my grandmother.
Grandma's Sugar Cookies
1
1/2 cups sugar
1 cup shortening
4 eggs
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup sour milk
1 teaspoon soda
5 cups flour
A little
nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon and 1 teaspoon of vanilla. Chill and in 1
hour roll out, cut and bake at 400
degrees about 8 minutes.
Sprinkle sugar on top before you bake.
My mom changed it over the years and actually had it published in a newspaper.
Sour Cream Sugar Cookies (Grandma's Sugar Cookies version 2)
1 cup butter
1
1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs
4 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp. soda
1
tsp. baking powder
3/4 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1 cup sour
cream
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla
Cream butter and sugar until
fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
Add sifted dry
ingredients alternately with sour cream; mixing
well after each addition until smooth; blend in vanilla. Chill
overnight or until firm enough to roll. Roll out on floured board
1/4 in. thick. Cut with cookie cutter and place on
ungreased
baking sheets. Sprinkle with sugar. Can be adapted to holiday
cookies. Bake 375 degrees for 12 min. or
until brown.
...Janet A. Hillestad
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Recipes with a Norwegian Flavor, Lefse and Potato Cakes made the Norwegian Way and other treats of an immigrant family from Norway
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