Danish Stuff

I'm taking a little break from the seemingly endless saga, that doesn't seem to want to end. So without further ado, here is a food post. Danish food no less. You won't find much food that's more Danish than this

With the summer rapidly approaching your appetite changes. Well some peoples, not mine. I'm as hungry as always but a lot of people eat seasonal foods. In the winter you have your stews and as spring, summer and autumn approaches your selection of foods change. Of course there is always the big meat feasts at barbecue day but then you also have cold pea soup, more salads etc. That's the way it's been in my family anyway, and the people around us. Suddenly when summer comes along there are no more mystery meat in some unspeakable sauce.

So what do we Danes have in the summer I hear you ask with great anticipation in your voices? Excellent question actually, because as summer sneaks up on us we steer towards something that is so Danish in fact, that it doesn't have an actual name in any other language than Danish. Of course it's a dairy product (sorry Donn) because we are in fact a proud dairy country in this little kingdom we like to call Danmark. Introducing a lovely light summer meal

KOLDSKÅL MED KAMMERJUNKER

Although this dish of Koldskål med Kammerjunker doesn't have a name in any other language it apparently does translate into English and is. *drum roll* cold buttermilk soup with rusks (?). It it's actual buttermilk soup but it's what comes the closest to a proper description. However much I hate buttermilk soup, I like Koldskål. It works as a dessert or a proper summer meal. It's only sold in the summer.

As you are quite facinated with our language even though some think we are swedish muppets (I love you dear!) I will be showing you the packaging as well as the final product so I hope you will enjoy it.






The carton says "Koldskål with eggs". Notice how it opens the old fashion way.







Notice how it's an Arla product like the infamous milk. This is also where you find how much fat etc. there is in the product and the ingredients. That's always fun to know, so I'll translate that for you.



90,5% Buttermilk, lemon-egg mixture (6% sugar, 3% pasteurized egg, lemon concentrate, vanilla aroma, vanilla extract, vanilla seeds)







The third and last angle of the carton that looks different from the first one. It has a lovely text of how classic it is and tasts like good old fashioned buttermilk soup.







Here are the rusks (?). I have no idea if that's right as I've never heard that word before in my life but in Danish they are Kammerjunker. A sweet tasting sort of biscuit cookie combination. As far as I know, they are only used for this and hot elderberry soup. Which some Danes also eat, but I don't. These are the originals made by Karen Volf. It was one of those factories that seduced us into thinking country charm, old woman working in her farmer kitchen baking all sorts of stuff for us all day - and loving it. When in reality it was a blooming business run out of a very industrialized boring factory. Now bought by the large Bisca company.







Here is an unsuccessful shot of the back of the bag. You can't really see anything but it says the usual things such as "can contain traces of nuts" and what's in it. Nothing exciting at all.






Here is the final product. Just pour the cold buttermilk soup product into a dish and crush some rusks on top and voilá you've got yourself a nice summer meal. If you want you can add fruits and berries. Strawberries and blackberries work very well in it.



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