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Requested by Cheryl Halldorson, Sep. 13th, 2008
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Comments on this request
Dec. 12th, 2008 Nancy Wong wrote:
Hi Cheryl, I have an Icelandic background and have tons of receipes from my mother and grandmother. Unfortunately I don't have the time at the moment to upload them to Food Connect. Your best bet is a wonderful book that was published in 2001 called The Culinary Saga of New Iceland by Kristin Olafson-Jenkyns (Coastline Publishing, Guelph). It has everything you need and more. Since it won the Canadian Cookbook Award I presume you can find it on-line or at your library. To answer Christine's question - Vinaterta is probably the most well known Icelandic dish. It is a decadent multi-layer torte that is made with almond shorbread layers, filled with a prune/brandy 'jam' and iced with a butter almond icing. It is traditionally served at Christmas, weddings etc. and takes a few hours to make and should 'age' for at least a week before it is cut. Other specialties include Gimli brown bread, marinated onion salad,ponnukokur, skyr, kleinur, lifarpylsa & rullupylsa.
Nov. 28th, 2008 Christine Pettersen wrote:
Hi Cheryl; My name is Christine and I've been a member since January of 2008. Although I do not have an Icelandic recipe to offer - My heritage is Scandinavian and I was just curious what Icelandic's specialty is?