Lutefisk & salt-cured country ham

I have never heard the name, "lutefisk," before but I have heard of dried Cod fish. I think they are preserved for winter eating primarily in much the same manner as salt-cured country ham.
By rubbing enormous quantities of salt on and into the meat, it can "cure" it for months.
Supermarkets, automatic canneries, and refrigeration, and more money available have just about eliminated such preservation of food.
Both are in about the same category as was dried string beans (shuck beans), dried apples, home-canned nearly everything--including spare ribs, buried potatoes, beef jerky, and home milk cows.
I must mention McDonald's also.

HA!, you're all wrong...

Submitted by TonyF on Sat, 05/17/2008 - 9:48am.

Lutefisk is that cute little, double-jointed Russian Gymnast(or the ice-skater,I can't remember which, but then again, maybe it's both of them and they're related).

O wad some Power the giftie gie us,To see oursels as ithers see us!
(R. Burns)
If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
(E. M. Cioran)

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Lutefisk:

Submitted by carbonunit52 on Sat, 05/17/2008 - 9:37am.

I had never heard of lutefisk, so I Googled it, and it turns out that it is prepared not with salt but with lye, caustic soda that is. Very interesting. Lutefisk

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Entirely Repulsive

Submitted by Naturedude on Sat, 05/17/2008 - 10:13am.

Do you suppose this process works with Armadillo?

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Absolutely

Submitted by simpleton on Sat, 05/17/2008 - 10:46am.

The initial preparation is quite similar to that of lutefisk, when you cook armadillo. (That is, unless you're referring to red velvet cake.) However, when it comes to serving it, be sure that your guests are all equipped with a set of ginsu knives, as the shell can be tricky to chew through.

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Some Folk

Submitted by Naturedude on Sat, 05/17/2008 - 11:35am.

Some folk'll never eat a skunk, but then again some folk'll, like Cletus the Slack Jawed Yocal.

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How about a separate section..

Submitted by carbonunit52 on Sat, 05/17/2008 - 11:06am.

on the Citizen blog for Food & Cooking? Since reading each other's political entries tends to make each other sick, perhaps discussions of gastronomical delicacies would provide some welcome relief, or at least a distraction.

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