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From: Jarrod Igou jigou@raquet.net
(Lived in Minnesota for 4 years, took pictures of Lutefisk. Couldn't get
past the smell to taste it.)
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I've lived here (Minnesota)with the scandewhovians for 15+ years and have yet
to even see this mystical material.
I've known people who actually like it and others who eat it at appropriate
times for the sake of their heritage, but none of them try to inflict it on
others.
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From: JD_Kemp@URSCorp.com
So, Lutefisk is dried codfish that has been "treated" with lye? I haven't
tried it, so I can't honestly comment on taste or texture, but it sure
sounds like a waste of fish to me. Don't y'all have peanut oil and deep
fryers up Nawth? Bet you don't serve your fish with cheese grits or hush
puppies, either...
Is there some secondary treatment before you eat these things, to kill the
lye??? I'd hate to wind up with a mouth full of "Easy Off" and dried
fish...
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You need to think of things available to preserve food hundreds of years ago
that were affordable to poor people.
(2nd hand info from people who actually have made it)
The secondary treatment consists of rehydrating it and a lot of boiling to the
point where any remaining texture is pretty much gone.
I have been told that the smell is in the cooking of it and that it is
resonably paletable if you put enough butter on it Of course, almost anything
is reasonably paletable if you put enough butter, sour cream, or cheese on it
(still a cheesehead at heart).
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