Norwegian Fare at Christmas in 1900
Among Norwegian and Norwegian-American at the turn of the twentieth-century, dishes often served at the homes of the Viking descendants were lutefish, a salted fish, and lefse, a delicious bread rolled thin and baked on top of the stove.
In Norway, instead of turkey, they serve Ryper - Ptarmigan which are caught in snares set among the rocks in the mountains, and a roast of reindeer meat - venison - will be found on every Christmas dinner table.
Each who enter a Norwegian home at Christmas or at any other time must partake of their delicious coffee, and with it is served a variety of dainty small cakes among which are krumkaker, belinerkranser, fattigman - a piece of cruller and sandbøkkelser, a sand tart. Also Julekake, a loaf of sweet bread, is baked by every Norwegian housewife at Christmas.
