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A taste of Denmark dishes up delicious servings of authentic traditional recipes such as AEbleskiver and Smorrebrod. Full of beautiful photographs of finished dishes and many how-to pictures, this is also an art creation by Danish born executive chef Stig Hansen. A perfect companion in exploring Danish cuisine! ... Read more

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Danish cooking - the American way
This is a collection of Danish recipes adopted for the American kitchen (metric units converted).
The book covers a wide range of Danish dishes and is richly illustrated.
It makes a perfect gift for Danes visiting American friends :-)

Just like my Danish grandmother used to make
These are not obscure recipes with impossible-to-find ingredients.The food in here is homey, comforting, and exactly like I remember from my grandmother's kitchen.It feels like an heirloom of family favorites cultivated over generations, handed down from parent to child.

Great variety of Danish food
I got this cookbook as a gift from my sister, as we are a quarter Danish but never really learned much about traditional Danish foods.This book has a fantastic variety of recipes & is well illustrated.I mean seriously - beer to raspberry jelly, aebleskiver to split pea soup, marzipan to bread.The first chapter is all on open faced sandwiches.I grew up in California & always felt like Danish foods from places like Solvang were really heavy and fattening, or had herring (which I can't stand).Yes, this cookbook does have all of that, but it also has recipes you could picture in a contemporary American kitchen.DH & I loved the split pea soup.We also made several of the open faced sandwich recipes including a salami one & a shrimp one.When you focus on the presentation more than gigantic American portions, it's not so overwhelming.I also tried the aebleskiver, which isn't as good as my family's passed down recipe (what coobkook recipe ever is?) but I liked the addition of the cardamom so I learned from that. I also can't wait to try the jelly & marzipan recipes, but I doubt we'll be making the beer as we're not big drinkers.Like I said - great variety of recipes that gives you a taste of Danish flavors.

Beautiful and well written
Great cookbook - amazing photography.It is nice to find a Danish cookbook in English and with American short cuts when possible.The recipes are will written and we have enjoyed trying new things.

Rigtig Dansk (Really Danish)
I have purchased 2 books one as a gift.The recipes are well written and beautifully illustrated.I have used the recipes to make, Grav Laks, Smorkage,Danish Mustard, Fish Sauce, Fars Fars Ryebread.The results are great and best of all the instructions favor the American kitchen and limitations of not having a Euro market in your neighborhood.I think you will be pleased with this book. ... Read more

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Traditional Danish food is based around the natural bounty of the land, with fresh fish from the seas and rivers, and delicious pork and dairy products from the animals that graze on its fertile pastures. This beautiful guide to the culinary delights of Denmark includes all the classic favourites, many of which have been cooked in Danish homes for centuries. ... Read more

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Did the authors actually make these recipes?
The cooking times in this book are not correct.The baking, simmering and frying times are much too short.The book failes to give succint instructions.There are nice pictures, but the recipe information is incomplete.Furthermore, the book may not be intended for American audiences.It often calls for caster sugar, vanilla sugar, or corn flour.These are not truly American terms.A cook should be highly skilled or use another cookbook to cross reference some of the recipes because all steps are not included or explained well.The lack of proper directions concerning custard is just one example.After making many of the recipes in this book, I was dismayed at the authorship and how often I had to draw from previous knoweldge or review my Culinary Institute of America textbook.This book is not for beginners.

Not just herring and potatoes!
This Danish cookbook is just what I've been looking for! It's gloriously illustrated, has both weight and volume in the instructions, and goes beyond the stereotypical herring and potatoes stuff! There are recipes for pork loin with apples and prunes, salmon steaks with warm potato salad, rack of lamb, red berry soup, and an entire chapter devoted just to open-faced sandwiches. Now, frankly, I AM a big herring fan, so I was happy to see a recipe for herring in tomato sauce, too. But if you're not, you could spend your whole time in the dessert chapter (Mazarins! plum cake! rice pudding!) and still feel like you're getting your money's worth. Since I can't jump on that SAS flight to Copenhagen as often as I'd like, I'm looking forward to recreating my favorite Danish meals with Judith Dern's book. Smorrebrod, smorrebrod, smorrebrod! ... Read more

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Contents of: Wonderful Wonderful Danish CookingPart one: Danish Baking1/ Breads2/ Sweet Breads, Coffee Cakes, famous Danish Pastry3/ Desert Cakes and Torten4/ Cookies and small Cakes5/ Fillings Frostings and Glazes6/ Smorrebrod: The open faced Sandwich7/ Drinks from DenmarkPart two: Danish Dining8/ Smorgasbord9/ Soups: Meat, Vegetable10/ Fish11/ Meats and Fowl12/ Salads13/ Vegetables14/ Pancakes, Waffles and Dumplings15/ Pies Puddings and other Sweets16/ Candies ... Read more

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Highlights of Danish-American culture, including recipes andinformation about cultural traditions.Reprinted in 2002 ... Read more

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Great little Danish book!
This is a great little book with great Danish recipes, stories, history, trivia, etc.My mother-in-law came from Denmark to USA in 1952 (legally immigrated) and these are authentic recipes.If you ever get the chance to go to Solvang, California - do so - it is great!!!

Delectably Danish is just that!
Friends and relatives rave at the food created using these recipes. The tid-bits of Danish and Danish-American history are fun for conversation while consuming the wonderful, authentic Danish dishes. These books are perfect gifts for friends who are of Danish descent, Danes by marriage, or are just wanna-be-Danes.

more danish american
The book is very informative. But does not seem to have very many authentic Danish dishes. This is more of a Danish American recipe book. If your looking for authentic recipes, this is not the book you want.

A highly affordable introduction to Danish culinary culture, filled with easy- to-follow recipes
Delectably Danish: Recipes And Reflections is a flat-spined cookbook of uniquely Danish delicacies, from Danish Liver Loaf to Rum Soup, Irene's Danish Kringle, Tivoli Salad and so much more. Black-and-white and color photographs offer a visual peek into Danish culture, and the text gives an ultra-condensed rundown of Danish history and holidays, as well as famous Danes. A highly affordable introduction to Danish culinary culture, filled with easy- to-follow recipes.

Recipes and Reflections
This book contains more than 100 recipes-from Racine's famous Danish kringles to the famous open-faced sandwiches. There are great fruit soups and the well-known frikadeller (Danish meat-ball) recipes.

Julie Jensen McDonald is noted for her novels about Danish immigrants in America, published by Iowa State University Press. This is her first cookbook.

The cover of this book shows a young woman in Solvang, California in Danish costume. Solvang is a major tourist attraction in America, first settled by the Danes from Iowa. The back cover depicts two charming children in Danish costumes holding a kringle at the O&H Danish Bakery in Racine, Wisconsin. Racine is America's largest Danish community with over 40,000 people of Danish heritage living there.

Recipes come from fabulous Danish cooks in Iowa, California, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Nebraska, all states with Danish populations. Special coverage is given to Dana College in Blair, Nebraska and to Grand View College in Des Moines, Iowa.

The 16 page color section of the book contains photographs of Danish foods, the street scenes and people of Solvang and works by Danish artists such as Christian Petersen at Iowa State University, Ames, and the Mount Rushmore sculpture by Gutzon Borglum. ... Read more

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Nowhere in the world is good food better prepared than in Denmark, where the practical spirit of modern Scandinavian cooking blends with the exotic haute cuisine of France's Golden Age. Danish layer-cakes, cheeses and pastries are justly famous here, and smoorrbrod is now almost an English word - but few English cooks even dream of such delicious dishes as Gypsy Cheese Salad and Veiled Country-Lass Dessert. Here is your chance to make them, and over three hundred other intriguing recipes from country-cottage to cordon-bleu standard. The book also includes chapters on Danish customs and hospitality and the delights of Danish restaurants. ... Read more

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This book includes the history, culture and recipes of Denmark and Danish-Americans. ... Read more

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That's Me!!
The blond girl on the cover is me! I just felt like adding that to the reviews!!I was 8 and I just happened to be up early and dressed in my costume(which my mother made for me). My mom buys them wherever we go.Happy reading!

cute
This is a very cute book.
It's more Danish-American than Danish, though, so if you're looking for a book about Denmark, this is not the one.
That said, it's nice, in its own way. Sweet, charming, full of stories of Midwestern grandmothers and such, as well as stories about Danish-American enclaves in the USA. There are some nice recipes, pretty much all of which are duplicated in the book "Dear Danish Recipes."
I was hoping for more insight into Denmark, but this is really more of a Danish-American immigrant thing. Good for what it is, and there's nothing wrong with that.

America�s inheritance of the Danish people!
Definitely Danish: Denmark and Danish Americans reflects the Danish-American experience of the over one-million Americans of Danish descent whose strong influence has helped shape Amereican identity.

Author Julie Jensen McDonald is noted for her novels about Danish immigrants in America as well as for her other Penfield Press titles which include Danish Proverbs and the popular cookbook Delectably Danish: Recipes and Reflections. Information from Julie and other contributors covers this ethnic group's influence on literature, dance, music, business, and various other aspects of society.

Ingred M. Christiansen of Brookline, Massachusetts. contributed articles about Danish Folk Dancing and Danish Folk Arts. Her mother, Marie Elisabeth Valborg Jorgensen at age 91, contributed memories of Christmas celebrations in Denmark in the early 1900s. Ingred is active in Scandinavian-American programs.

The food section includes traditional recipes (with the Danish names) savored by generations, including Racine, Wisconsin's O&H Bakery's famous kringle recipe. Holiday customs include a pattern for the interwoven paper hearts.

Artist Diane Heusinkveld's illustrations cover Danish-American artifacts, sites, events, costumes and people. Among these charming drawings are the Dagmar Cross, the Danish Windmill in Elk Horn, Iowa, "Kristus," Bertal Thorvaldsen's famous statue of Christ, and Gutzon Borglum's "Mount Rushmore" sculpture.

The colorful cover of this book shows two young girls in Danish costume enjoying a festival at Skovsoen, the Danish Village at Concordia Language Villages. The back cover has a picture of the white clapboard Danish Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church that is now part of the Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer in Grand Island, Nebraska.

This is a book concerning America's inheritance of the rich traditions, recipes and culture of the Danish people. ... Read more

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This exciting collection of 100 recipes, each dish the favourite of a Scandinavian cook, spans the range of home cooking -- starters, soups, omelettes, pancakes, meats and pastries. Included are directions for making such tempting dishes as Norwegian Blueberry Omelette, Danish Butter Cake, Swedish Pancakes, and openfaced Danish sandwiches. ... Read more

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Travel book
This book was more of a travel guide through scandinavia than a cookbook and that was a bit of a disappointment for me. ... Read more

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Cookbooks tell stories. They open up the worlds in which the people who wrote and read them once lived. In the hands of a good historian, cookbooks can be shown to contain the markings of political, social, and ideological changes that we conventionally locate outside the kitchen. Cookbooks allow us to trace the course of empires, of social roles, and of new nations over time. Danish Cookbooks: Domesticity and National Identity, 1616-1901 draws from three hundred years of Danish cookbooks to trace the growth of a bourgeois consciousness, the development of domesticity and gendered spheres, and the evolution of nationalism and a specific Danish identity from the early seventeenth to the beginning of the twentieth century.Like all prescriptive literature, cookbooks do not merely reflect the changes of the day but also constitute them. Historian Carol Gold reads recipes and cooking instructions for what they can tell us about literacy levels, division of labor in the kitchen and in society, and changes in the gendered aspects of publishing and using cookbooks. Gold explores the authors' instructions for economic and hygienic housekeeping and their sentiments about Danish identity as spelled out in dishes and spices. Just as the Danish nation would manage the body politic, so women were exhorted to manage the house and ensure the family's physical and moral health. Through the pages of cookbooks - in recipes, menus, and table settings - we can chart the growth of a nationalist Denmark and track the development of what it means to be a Dane.Written with the ease of a veteran historian and in an accessible and engaging style, Danish Cookbooks will appeal to scholars in Scandinavian studies as well as in gender and women's studies.It will also appeal to nonacademic readers interested in historical aspects of Danish nationalism and identity, women's social history, and cookbooks and cooking. ... Read more

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The Unique Sources of Food History
Food history has a unique set of documents - cookbooks and recipes - but no canon or methodology by which they can be interpreted. A number of recent books, however, have attempted to redress this deficit. Danish Cookbooks is an account of the emergence of a Danish national cuisine. Gold does not think Danish national cuisine somehow bubbled up from the people, but rather it was imposed by nationalist elites of the early 19th century, the same class as issued the first dictionaries and began to identify national themes of folklore. The key chapter here is a brilliant account of how potatoes - a new world crop--came to become the lynchpin of a Danish national cuisine and enshrined national identity. In her analysis of cookbooks, Gold detects a shift, documented by other food historians too, in the mid-19th century from descriptive recipes aimed at chefs of the aristocracy to prescriptive reifies aimed at women. Prescriptive cookbooks, both standardized recipes and made it possible for anyone to cook. recipes document the literacy of ordinary women. Then as urban women learned to cook from books, technological innovations increased their capacity to cook at home. The enclosed stove of the late 19th--century, for example. made it possible both to bake at home and to increase the scope of roasting. This book is innovative and enjoyable, which addresses food history at its sources.

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