http://blog.icelandexpress.com/iceland/2009/08/19/brennivin-icelandic-schnapps/ How do you like Iceland? - a blog about Icelandic nature, nightlife, parties, adventure, shopping, eating, drinking, recovering and much more. It's brought to you by the good people of Iceland Express, Iceland's low-fare airline, as a way of luring you to Reykjavík. Go on, read it. Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:28:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blog.icelandexpress.com/iceland/2009/08/19/brennivin-icelandic-schnapps/comment-page-1/#comment-174387 Blogs With Bite « NotionsCapital Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:49:46 +0000 http://blog.icelandexpress.com/iceland/2009/08/19/brennivin-icelandic-schnapps/#comment-174387 [...] Little Gingerbread House on the Prairie — Laura Ingalls Wilder’s gingerbread recipe.     Bubbe Wendy’s Hannukah Latkes – Eric R. Trinidad blogs about Bubbe (Grandma) Wendy’s holiday potato pancakes. A very American recipe.  The latke should not be confused with the latkcho.   Christmas Cookies of the World–  Recipes from many countries.   St. Stephen’s Horns (Podkovy) – Crescent-shaped pastries baked on St. Stephen’s Day (December 26th) in Poland and other Slavic countries. Ireland celebrates the day with a traditional stew.   Iceland’s Winter Feasts – Laufabrauð (Leaf-bread), a fried wafer incised with intricate leaf patterns, is served during Advent with smoked lamb (hangikjöt), butter, red cabbage and peas, and washed down with Jólabland (a kind of “shandy” made with fizzy orange soda and ale or malt beer). You can even get ready-mixed Jólabland these days. On December 23rd, Iceland celebrates native-born Saint Thorlakur during  Þorláksmessa (Mass of St. Thorlák) with a noon meal of kæst skata, aged or fermented (“rotten”) skate, (meat of the muscular “wings” is preferred). Þorrablót, a pre-Christian midwinter holiday in January and February, features traditional meals of fermented shark meat, Harðfiskur (dried fish snacks), Hrútspungar (sheep’s testicles), Hvalspik (whale blubber), Selshreifar (seal flippers), Sviðasulta (mutton headcheese), Magálar (smoked sheep’s bellies), Svið (singed sheep’s heads), Brennivín (caraway-flavored potato schnapps), and so on. The Christmas meal is much more conventional, just the usual hangikjöt, Steiktar Rjúpur (fried ptarmigan), lamb roast, goose, Hamborgarhryggur (smoked pork rib roast), rice pudding, and cookies. And don’t forget the Brennivín.   Eggnog History — Mark Anderson has a brief account; so does Nanna Rognvaldardottir. Spiced wine or ale is also a seasonal tradition. Hangover Cures – Julia Watson has a few suggestions.   Comments are welcome if they are on-topic, substantive, concise, and not obscene. Comments may be edited for clarity and length.     [...] [...] Little Gingerbread House on the Prairie — Laura Ingalls Wilder’s gingerbread recipe.     Bubbe Wendy’s Hannukah Latkes – Eric R. Trinidad blogs about Bubbe (Grandma) Wendy’s holiday potato pancakes. A very American recipe.  The latke should not be confused with the latkcho.   Christmas Cookies of the World–  Recipes from many countries.   St. Stephen’s Horns (Podkovy) – Crescent-shaped pastries baked on St. Stephen’s Day (December 26th) in Poland and other Slavic countries. Ireland celebrates the day with a traditional stew.   Iceland’s Winter Feasts – Laufabrauð (Leaf-bread), a fried wafer incised with intricate leaf patterns, is served during Advent with smoked lamb (hangikjöt), butter, red cabbage and peas, and washed down with Jólabland (a kind of “shandy” made with fizzy orange soda and ale or malt beer). You can even get ready-mixed Jólabland these days. On December 23rd, Iceland celebrates native-born Saint Thorlakur during  Þorláksmessa (Mass of St. Thorlák) with a noon meal of kæst skata, aged or fermented (“rotten”) skate, (meat of the muscular “wings” is preferred). Þorrablót, a pre-Christian midwinter holiday in January and February, features traditional meals of fermented shark meat, Harðfiskur (dried fish snacks), Hrútspungar (sheep’s testicles), Hvalspik (whale blubber), Selshreifar (seal flippers), Sviðasulta (mutton headcheese), Magálar (smoked sheep’s bellies), Svið (singed sheep’s heads), Brennivín (caraway-flavored potato schnapps), and so on. The Christmas meal is much more conventional, just the usual hangikjöt, Steiktar Rjúpur (fried ptarmigan), lamb roast, goose, Hamborgarhryggur (smoked pork rib roast), rice pudding, and cookies. And don’t forget the Brennivín.   Eggnog History — Mark Anderson has a brief account; so does Nanna Rognvaldardottir. Spiced wine or ale is also a seasonal tradition. Hangover Cures – Julia Watson has a few suggestions.   Comments are welcome if they are on-topic, substantive, concise, and not obscene. Comments may be edited for clarity and length.     [...]

]]> http://blog.icelandexpress.com/iceland/2009/08/19/brennivin-icelandic-schnapps/comment-page-1/#comment-170382 Iceland Express goes to New York at How do you like Iceland? - a blog by Iceland Express Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:04:37 +0000 http://blog.icelandexpress.com/iceland/2009/08/19/brennivin-icelandic-schnapps/#comment-170382 [...] (Not that we’d mind of course — you’re always welcome to stop by for a sip of Brennvín.) [...] [...] (Not that we’d mind of course — you’re always welcome to stop by for a sip of Brennvín.) [...]

]]> http://blog.icelandexpress.com/iceland/2009/08/19/brennivin-icelandic-schnapps/comment-page-1/#comment-170135 Welcome to the show at How do you like Iceland? - a blog by Iceland Express Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:36:27 +0000 http://blog.icelandexpress.com/iceland/2009/08/19/brennivin-icelandic-schnapps/#comment-170135 [...] Cultural Learnings of Iceland, Part 6: Brennivín [...] [...] Cultural Learnings of Iceland, Part 6: Brennivín [...]

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