Boiled: Sugar Browned Potatoes

Subject: Sugar Browned Potatoes
Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
From: Michael Nielsen (archon at mail1.stofanet.dk)
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 17:21:48 +0100
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Cover the pan with the sugar. When it is melted add some butter (30 g) and stir. It must be liquid. Lower the heat and add the (small and cold) boiled potatoes and turn them once in a while. When they are warm and covered with golden sugar, they are done.

Watch out for the sugar - it's fast at becomming too hard or dark.
From: Martha Hughes (bastzine at worldnet.att.net)
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 01:11:20 GMT
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Archon wrote:
> Cover the pan with the sugar. When it is melted add some butter (30 g)
> and stir. It must be liquid. Lower the heat and add the (small and cold)
> boiled potatoes and turn them once in a while. When they are warm and
> covered with golden sugar, they are done.
>
> Watch out for the sugar - it's fast at becomming too hard or dark.

Thanks, Michael, I'm going to try this. The idea of regular potatoes with sugar sounds different, but I bet it's good.
From: Felice Friese (friese at mediaone.net)
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 01:21:40 GMT
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Archon wrote:
> Watch out for the sugar - it's fast at becomming too hard or dark.

Hot damn! Another way to eat sugar!
From: Michael Nielsen (archon at mail1.stofanet.dk)
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 07:34:49 +0100
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Archon wrote:
> Watch out for the sugar - it's fast at becomming too hard or dark.

Oh, I forgot to tell what we eat this for (usually):

1. Frikadeller
2. Medisterpølse (somewhat frikadelle "dough" as a sausage, boiled and refrigerated, or boiled and fried)
3. Pork Rind Roast
4. Grønlangkål + 1,2, or 3.

And of course Red Beets :)
From: Stefanie Freeston (anfre at ihug.co.nz)
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 22:42:27 +1300
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Hi, I have a cooking book (Australian and New Zealand Complete Book Of Cookery, Mural Books), which has the sugar browned potatoes recipe in the 'foreign' cooking section. As Scandinavian menue it recommends:

Fiskepudding (Fish pudding with Hollandaise Sauce)
Plommonspackad Flaskkarre (Pork stuffed with prunes)
Sugar browned potatoes and
Maniskkalumi ( Strawberry snow)
Would you consider this to be an acceptable menue?
Regards Stefanie
From: Michael Nielsen (archon at mail1.stofanet.dk)
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 12:55:56 GMT
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> Fiskepudding (Fish pudding with Hollandaise Sauce)

For this I'd prefer boiled potatoes, it might be good (but isn't hollandaise sauce sweet enough as it is?).

> Plommonspackad Flaskkarre (Pork stuffed with prunes)

I haven't tried this, but it sounds in the vein of pork roast and duck stuffed prunes.

> Sugar browned potatoes and
> Maniskkalumi ( Strawberry snow)

A-hva-ba? What's strawberry snow?
This is probably a Finnish thing.
From: Martha Hughes (bastzine at worldnet.att.net)
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 15:52:53 GMT
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Archon wrote:
> A-hva-ba? What's strawberry snow?
> This is probably a Finnish thing.

Alan Z. would know about that, I bet.

All the Scandinavian countries do not eat the same thing. The Danes (fortunately) do not eat lutefisk.