So glad I'm not Norwegian

I was looking in my 1979 You Asked for It cookbook (from St. Olaf Lutheran Church, Austin, MN) for a potato-leek soup recipe. I found it eventually in my companion cookbook, More Cooking from Minnesota, but that's not the point of beginning this blog. While paging through the St. Olaf cookbook, I came across a dessert that made me glad I'm not Norwegian, because if I were and I ate stuff like this, I'd have died of cholesterol-clogged arteries causing heart failure at a very early age. Listen to this:

This dish is called Romegrot (umlauts over both Os).

1 quart (QUART!!!) whipping cream
3/4 cup flour
1 quart milk, boiled
Salt, brown sugar, cinnamon, raisins

Boil cream 15 minutes. Add flour slowly, stirring constantly. Keep stirring and keep pouring of BUTTER; save butter. Add boiled milk. Let simmer until thick. Add salt. Put into a serving dish. Pour butter over; sprinkle with brown sugar and cinnamon. Dot with raisins which have been soaked in water.

This was contributed by 3 women; apparently they all submitted the same recipe. Why do I think they're probably all among the departed roughly 30 yrs. later?

I just had to share that recipe. What a hoot. It doesn't even have any sugar! Boiled milk with butter & raisins. Yum.

Nothing else to say right now. I think I'll go get some raisins, just plain, without milk and butter thankyouverymuch.