A Scandinavian dish prepared by soaking dried cod in lye to tenderize it, then skinning, boning, and boiling the fish to a gelatinous consistency.
Example sentencesExamples
Christmas meal traditions vary by region and may include roast pork, other meat, or lutefisk.
We have German bratwurst and beer, we have Scandinavian lefse (a potato-based soft, flat bread) and lutefisk, we have greens and chitlins.
That night I was aboard the Kottur og Stulka preparing lutefisk for 90 burly sailors with fairy tale accents and tattoos of anchors.
So next time you smell someone's rotting corpse around the old folks home don't go calling the morgue until you confirm whether there's lutefisk for dinner that night.
One of the most popular dishes is lutefisk, stockfish softened in a solution of lye.
For the uninitiated, lutefisk is an infamous Norwegian dish made of dried cod fish soaked in lye.
The Norwegian word lutefisk means ‘fish washed in lye’ and refers to an ancient manufacturing process that involved drying fish and soaking it in lye.
These are cleared, and a hot entrée is brought out - in their case usually a fruit-filled pork loin with red cabbage and boiled potatoes rather than the more traditional lutefisk.
At Christmas, many Finnish Americans eat lutefisk (lye-soaked dried cod) and prune-filled tarts.
They ‘drive great distances and spend much money for the delicacy, they'll risk their lives on icy roads going to lutefisk dinners in faraway communities’.
Definition of lutefisk in US English:
lutefisk
nounˈlo͞odəˌfisk
A Scandinavian dish prepared by soaking dried cod in lye to tenderize it, then skinning, boning, and boiling the fish to a gelatinous consistency.
Example sentencesExamples
We have German bratwurst and beer, we have Scandinavian lefse (a potato-based soft, flat bread) and lutefisk, we have greens and chitlins.
One of the most popular dishes is lutefisk, stockfish softened in a solution of lye.
That night I was aboard the Kottur og Stulka preparing lutefisk for 90 burly sailors with fairy tale accents and tattoos of anchors.
For the uninitiated, lutefisk is an infamous Norwegian dish made of dried cod fish soaked in lye.
So next time you smell someone's rotting corpse around the old folks home don't go calling the morgue until you confirm whether there's lutefisk for dinner that night.
They ‘drive great distances and spend much money for the delicacy, they'll risk their lives on icy roads going to lutefisk dinners in faraway communities’.
At Christmas, many Finnish Americans eat lutefisk (lye-soaked dried cod) and prune-filled tarts.
The Norwegian word lutefisk means ‘fish washed in lye’ and refers to an ancient manufacturing process that involved drying fish and soaking it in lye.
Christmas meal traditions vary by region and may include roast pork, other meat, or lutefisk.
These are cleared, and a hot entrée is brought out - in their case usually a fruit-filled pork loin with red cabbage and boiled potatoes rather than the more traditional lutefisk.