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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.
 

Pepperkaker - there's never a Christmas without them!
 
"Korv" is actually Swedish for sausage and hot dog. I think the name applies to every version of a sausage. Funny that the word is used over there. I suppose it was used for a traditional Swedish sausage? In Norway we use the word "Pølse" in pretty much the same way, as a common noun for all, eh, sausage-like foods.

Krumkake was a Christmas tradition along with riskrem.  Krumkake is kind of a crepe/waffle/cookie hybrid.   It's very thin like a crepe.  Cooked on an iron like a waffle.  Brittle like a cookie.  They're either rolled like a cone or made into a bowl shape.  
 
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Riskrem (rice cream) is just that--cooked rice and whipped cream that's served cold with a strawberry or raspberry sauce.  One almond was "hidden" in the riskrem and whoever got the almond won a prize.  The prize was usually a marzipan pig.  
 
Unlike riskrem, risengrynsgrøt is a porridge that is served warm with cinnamon, sugar and butter.  

Thanks from the naive and simple...
I always loved the song Norweigan Wood... however, I will never think of it the same way again.
 
I didn't even know that herrings had pickles...
 
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