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My father would eat pickled herring all of the time, I could never look at the stuff … but pickled herring certainly wasn’t lutfisk.
 
My mother made cookies called pepperkakker.  It was a gingerbread cookie and I could eat a dozen of them in one sitting.
 
We would have something my family called Korv at Christmas time which was a potato sausage.  The version of the sausage we ate had a very unique flavor and I found out much later in life that cardamom was one of the ****es used to make it.  Cardamom is great in breads but in my opinion, an acquired taste in savory.  (as a side note, nobody from NJ had ever heard of it but everybody from Jamestown, NY, a Scandinavian stronghold and my place of birth and place of residence for the first six months of my life, claimed it was a traditional Swedish dish.  But since moving out here to MN I have not heard anybody refer to the sausage as “Korv” … I suspect the sausage is truly a traditional Swedish dish but the name “korv” is an American invention)
 
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Definition according to Cakewalk:
****es -  Any of various pungent, aromatic plant substances used to season or flavor foods.