Joakim wrote on 2021-11-27, 16:26:
I thought you Danish mostly ate goose. It was just recently Mortens aften, after all.
Back when families were big, it was goose. When families began to be 3 children and two parents, a goose were kind of a lot to eat. And then it changed from goose to duck. That is both on Morten's aften, and the 24'th of december as well. But there is a difference on what people eat for Christmas today in the various parts of the country. Some parts it is duck, other parts it is pork roast. What people in Copenhagen traditionally eat, are not the same as in Jutland. The wildest menu that I have tried, was at a former girlfriends family, in a small town in the north-western part of Fuen. Her mother served a 2 kilo pork roast and a 4 kilo duck as the main thing. Then she served frikadeller and 1 kilo of roasted slices of the same meat you make bacon from. And to top it off, just in case there were not enough meat, she roasted 2 kilo of medister. That is just a specific sausage. 5 type of meat for 4 people. Oh boy.... Never have I seen that much meat for Christmas. 😳
But yeah.... Roasted medister as that extra thing, is typical what you find on the island of Fuen.
What is served to the meat, are always almost the same. You get plain boiled potatoes that we call white potatoes. Then there are caramelized potatoes that we call brown potatoes. Pickled red cabbage, that are more sweet than sour. Something sour, that are usually pickled pumpkin slices or a pickled kind of big cucumber. Then brown sauce with lots of heavy cream and red wine in it. We have red currant gele and black currant jam. Finally we serve crisps (called chips in America). That is about the standard things that most eat. Of course there are always people who want to eat something else, for the sake of not being traditional. Some even eat sushi, and then there are vegans who eat something completely different.
For desert it is always ris ala mande with cherry sauce. It is a kind of rice porridge mixed with whipped cream, lots of vanilla added and chopped white almonds. A whole white almond is hidden and the one that finds it get a present/gift. A bit like the old English Christmas game of getting that coin in a cake. Some cheat and use vanilla sugar, and other cheat and use almond extract instead of the real deal. The worst I have seen, was in the small outback town that my grand parents lived in. One Christmas my grand mother was unable to cook, and neighbours came with the food ready made to them. Fine gesture, however the ris ala mande, were made with extreme amount of sugar, vanilla sugar and almond extract. And because they were cheap on the rice, they had added gelatine to make it more firm. Like WTF!!! 😳 😳
Don't eat stuff off a 15 year old never cleaned cpu cooler.
Those cakes make you sick....
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