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By Michelle Nagle Spencer.
Recipes and reflections on the traditions, sites, and events associated with the holidays observed by Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish Americans.

Norwegian Wedding Cake p. 131

Norma Wangsness, Decorah, Iowa
Her rosemaling is on the cover of this book.

3 cups butter, softened
1 1/2 cups almond paste
3 cups powdered sugar
3 teaspoons almond extract
6 egg yolks
7 1/2 cups sifted flour

Frosting:
1 1/2 cups sifted powdered sugar
1 egg white
1 teaspoon vinegar

Cream butter, almond paste, powdered sugar, and almond extract. Beat in egg yolks. Add flour gradually and mix until smooth. Place dough in a cookie press and press into Kransekake ring molds, which can be purchased at specialty shops. If you do not want to invest in molds, shape the dough on foil-covered cardboard into 26 rings graduating in size. Start with a 1-inch ring and make each ring 1/2 inch larger than the one before. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes.
Frosting:Stir all ingredients together; add additional powdered sugar if the frosting is not stiff enough. Place in pastry tube with a small round tip.
To Assemble:Drizzle some frosting on a platter; this will anchor cake. Place the largest ring on the frosting. Apply frosting in scallops on the first ring and place the next largest ring on top of the first. Continue until you have used all 26 rings. The frosting will hold the rings in place. Decorate with small Norwegian flags or marzipan fruits on toothpicks.

See more recipes under "Free Recipes" section.

Spiral bound, 5-1/2 x 3- 1/2", 160 pages. ISBN 0-941016-60-9

By Karen Berg Douglas, Lansing, Michigan.
Rosemaling in color on the cover. Features traditional foods of all five Scandinavian countries. Recipes include nutty cheese crispies, Danish wine cooler, sourdough pumpernickel, Norwegian crispbread delight, Swedish brown beans, Finnish meatballs, Icelandic pancakes, and rice pudding.

Swedish Cream Wafers p. 139

Wafers:
1/3 cup soft butter
1/3 cup thick cream
2 cups sifted all-purpose flour

Filling:
1/4 cup soft butter
3/4 cup powdered sugar
1 egg yolk
1 teaspoon vanilla

Wafers: Combine all ingredients together in a large bowl. Mix well and chill. Roll out half the dough to 1/8-inch thickness. Using a fluted cutter, cut into rounds. Keep remaining dough cool. Place the rounds on sugar-covered waxed paper. Turn to coat both sides. Prick each round four times with the tines of a fork. Place on ungreased cookie sheet and bake at 375 degrees for 7 to 9 minutes. Cool and put 2 pounds together with the filling.

Filling: Combine all ingredients. Spread over cooled wafer and top with another.

See more recipes under "Free Recipes" section.

Spiral bound, 5-1/2 x 3-1/2", 160 pages. ISBN 0-941016-85-4

Compiled by Melinda Bradnan.
This colection includes a variety of recipes for the smallest or largest catch with Scandinavian expertise for using the bounty of the sea.

Fish Baked in Milk p. 60

2 tablespoons butter
1-1/2 pounds fresh fish
1 teaspoon salt
1-1/3 cups 2% milk

Melt butter in baking dish and place cleaned fish in the pan. Sprinkle with salt and add milk. Bake at 350 degrees until fish is tender, about 45 minutes.

Spiral bound, 5-1/2 x 3-1/2", 155 pages. ISBN 1-932043-14-4

By Karen Berg Douglas.
Features artwork by the great Swedish master, Carl Larsson.
Attractive color cover of traditional Scandinavian treats. Recipes include Swedish coffee bread, chocolate balls, Norwegian fried cookies, Swedish cheese cakes, butterscotch dessert, Finnish fruit soup, and Swedish nuts.

Danish Pancakes p. 21

2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar
2 cups buttermilk
2 eggs, separated
1 teaspoon baking soda
Melted butter
Jelly or applesauce

Mix flour, salt, and sugar. Beat together buttermilk and egg yolks; add the flour mixture. Beat egg whites until stiff; add soda, then fold into batter. Heat the aebleskiver pan and put melted butter into each hole in pan. Pour batter into holes, but do not quite fill them. Place over low heat and turn quickly when half-done. Serve hot with jelly or applesauce. Note: Aebleskiver pans may be purchased at most gourmet cookware shops.

Spiral bound, 5-1/2 x 3-1/2", 120 pages. ISBN 0-941016-88-9

Extraordinary collection of recipes in this handy book. Favorites include German baked apple pancake, peanut butter pancakes, belgian waffles, lemon crepes, and blueberry sauce. A must-have for any breakfast lover!

Gingerbread Pancakes p. 30
2-1/2 cups cake flour
1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1-1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
1/8 teaspoon salt
1-1/4 cups molasses
1/2 cup coffee, cooled
1/4 cup water
1 egg, beaten
1/2 cup melted butter

Sift dry ingredients together into a mixing bowl. In a separate bowl, mix remaining ingredients. Slowly add the wet ingredients to the dry, mixing well. Drop desired amount of batter onto a lightly greased, low-heat skillet. Cook until bubbles appear, then flip and cook the other side. Top with whipped cream or powdered sugar.
Spiral bound, 5-1/2 x 3-1/2", 124 pages.
ISBN 1-932043-03-9
ISBN: 978-1-932-04303-7

By Cico Books
Author: Gail Abbott
Living with Light, shows you how to decorate the Scandinavian way, using subtle colors, textures, and accessories to maximize light, day and night.
Chapter by chapter, discover how traditional and crisply contemporary homes achieve the look. Colors are whites, neutrals, and the tones and hues of nature-the gray-blues of a northern lake at dawn to the cool vanilla light of the midnight sun. surfaces are painted pale or emboldened with blocks of bright white; windows, triple glazed to keep the heat in, are dressed with fine, unlined fabric to let in light while mirrors beam every gleam of precious daylight and night light into nooks and niches.
The photography, specially commissioned in Scandinavia and other locations in northern Europe, makes Living with Light, an inspiring, authentic guide to this increasingly popular decorative style.
8 5/8" x 10"
ISBN: 9781907030345

By Ryland Peters & Small of London and New York
Contributing Editor: Sara Norrman
With additional text by: Magnus Englund
and Caroline Clifton-Mogg
Scandinavian interior design is admired the world over for its unpretentious simplicity and understated elegance. Homes are relaxed and welcoming, filled with furniture and objects that are practical., functional and beautiful. Rooms are typically airy, light and bright. Furnishings are often modern design classics, usually mixed with pretty antique and vintage pieces. Splashes of strong colour brighten tranquil white spaces. The beauty of natural materials, especially wood, is celebrated throughout the home. It is a style that is in tune with a current wish for calm, uncluttered spaces that are great to live in. This book offers an abundance of original and easy-to-achieve design ideas that will work in any setting.
Hardback, 10 3/8" x 8 3/4", ISBN: 978-1-84597-977-5

A group of young Norwegian villagers, faced with a rigid class structure, political oppression, and dismal agricultural opportunities, willingly wrench themselves away from the Old World to make a better life for themselves. Ola Vatne wants to be free of any other man''s dictates; Morten Kvidal dreams of owning his own land; Else, the colonel''s daughter, is determined to defy her prosperous father and marry the landless peasant she loves; Jo Berg, the schoolmaster, seeks a land where he can speak freely about political conditions without fear of losing his job; Anne Ramsey needs to find a father for the baby she is expecting; Kal and Karen Skaret want their children to have a richer life than one made from scratching a meager existence from the rocky soil of the Norwegian coast.
Their trek takes them to homesteads in North Dakota in the 1880s and 1890s where they find that breaking the sod, surviving blizzards and prairie fires, and raising wheat is easier to accomplish than feeling at home in this new land.
ISBN: 087351260X

An engaging and richly detailed family biography of nineteenth-century Norwegian immigrant homesteaders in eastern North Dakota.
"Opening with a three-day blizzard, the tale proceeds to impressions of prairie life, animals and crops, household handicrafts, discussions by the well-educated father, stories of the affectionate mother, the problem of water, primitive medicine, Norwegian foods, home building, the farming seasons, the coming of neighbors, the first school, new farm machinery, the long years of a burdensome mortgage, the shift from pioneer mutual helpfulness to commercial rivalry and cunning, and the failure of those, such as the father of this family, whose training ill fitted them for the rigors of frontier farming."
ISBN: 0873512952

This book is an autobiography of our "Growing Up Lutheran" remembrances. We both speak at hundreds of Lutheran churches of various synods throughout the nation each year, and countless Lutherans have related their endearing, often hilarious, stories. Many of those stories, and many related pictures, are included in this book and help capture the "Lutheran Experience."
By combining our memories and pictures with those of other Lutherans who grew up in the 40's through the 60's, our book is like an old-fashioned Lutheran church basement hotdish. We have put together a mixture of ingredients that we had on hand, generously salted it with gentle humor, and lightly peppered it with quite a few hot granules of Lutheran theology.
This is most certainly true.
--Janet Letnes Martin and Suzann (Johnson) Nelson

Presents 156 tales accompanied by the author's notes on the background of his stories.
Hans Christian Anderson is one of the immortals of world literature. The fairy tales he wrote, such as "The Snow Queen," "The Ugly Duckling," "The Red Shoes," and "The Nightingale," are remarkable for their sense of fantasy, power of description, and acute sensitivity, and they are like no others written before or since. Unlike the Brothers Grimm, who collected and retold folklore, Andersen adopted the most ancient literary forms of the fairy tale and the folktale distilled them into a genre that was uniquely his own.

In preparing this first English translation of the complete fairy tales and stories as collected and told by Andersen, Erik Haugaard has scrupulously followed the text and the order of the stories in the original Danish edition of 1874. Recognizing the literary merit of Andersen's own simple colloquial language, which Victorian translators and their imitators very often altered to sentimentalize or vulgarize, Haugaard has remained faithful to the original text. This edition included Andersen's own notes to his stories.

As Virginia Haviland comments in her Foreword, "This new work, in its fresh and authentic transmission, and with Andersen's notes accompanying the translation, is offered as a contribution to the history of a literature that belongs to every age."

Translated from the Danish by Erik Christian Haugaard.
"The best English edition of Anderson in three decades. Haugaard is the perfect translator for an American audience. He faithfully renders the tales into an idiomatic English that makes them as fresh and lively as they must have been to the Danes who first heard them." Psychology Today

1102 pages

The Heimskringla, a history of Norwegian kings beginning with the Ynglinga Saga, traces the descent of Norwegian royalty from Odin, presented as a historical figure, a great conqueror and master wizard. The chronicle ends with the story of Magnus Erlingson, who ruled until A.D. 1184.
Paperbound, 5-3/8 x 8-1/4" 354 pages. ISBN 0-48623-66-5

By Janet Letnes Martin.
This hilarious book is dedicated "for those who feel like the key on a can of Spam that''s gone off track." Chapters include: a lullaby for sleep-deprived, hotflashing women; when there''s more than your slip that''s slipping; when your eyes are fine, but your arms are too short; situations where Helga''s Hanky would have been handy; and when your kids say it''s cool to be hot.
Paperback. 5 x 7". 52 pages. ISBN 1-886627-04-5

Learn how to make Lutheran Jell-O and a tried and true "dead spread" for funerals. This book includes the do''s and don''ts for Lutheran Women, instructions on how to tie knots in dishtowels for hot dishes, scarves, and aprons, and explains the six types of aprons a Lutheran lady needs.

Charlene Power''s Scandinavian joke book No. 9 will have you looking at the world in a whole new light!
Ole says, "Love is never having tew say you''re sorry!! Marriage is never having a chance tew say anything!!"

By Janet Letnes Martin and Suzann (Johnson) Nelson. "Their cars had accelerators or gas pedals ... Ours had foot feeds. Their cars had glove compartments ... Ours had cubby holes. They had goldfish in a bowl ... We had suckers in the stock tank." And so goes some of the poetic wisdom from the Midwestern, Norwegian-Lutheran mothers who wrote this book. Packed with colorful observations and humor. Paperback. 6 x 4-1/2". 260 pages. ISBN 0-9613437-7-X.

By Sigrid Undset.
Translated by Tiina Nunnally.
In her great historical epic "Kristin Lavransdatter," Sigrid Undset tells the life story of one passionate and headstrong woman. Undset paints a richly detailed backdrop, immersing readers in the day-to-day life, social conversations, and political and religious undercurrents of the period. Now in one volume, Tiina Nunnally's award-winning definitive translation brings this remarkable work to life with exquisite clarity and lyrical beauty.
Softcover, 5.5 x 8.5", 1146 pages. ISBN 0143039164

By Abbie Farwell Brown
With original illustrations from E. Boyd Smith
Sixteen thrilling Norse tales, geared to young readers, bring to life the "brave warriors, cruel giants, mischievous dwarfs, and othe fantastic beings" of the land of the Midnight Sun.
Paperback, 8 1/4 x 5 1/4", 148 pages.
ISBN 0-486-45119-4

By Padraic Colum
Illustrations by Willie Pogany
Irish author Padraic Colum provides a unique retelling of this rich selection of 35 tales from Norse mythology: how Thor fooled Thrym the Giant; Baldurs Doom; the Twilight of the Gods; and many more.
Paperback, 8 1/4 x 5 1/4", 282 pages.
ISBN 0-486-28912-5

By Kevin Crossley-Holland.
Here are 32 classic Norse myths that bring the ancient Viking world to life. Beautifully retold by Kevin Crossley-Holland, these tales depict cruelty, courage, and passions that were the hallmarks of the old Norse world.
Paperback.
ISBN 0-394748-46-8
ISBN-13 978-0-394-74846-7

By A. & E. Keary
Illustrated by C.E. Brock
Mighty superhuman warriors and beautiful goddesses abound in this rich collection of twenty-nine tales of the immortal figures who inhabit Asgard, land of the Norse gods.
Paperback, 8 1/4 x 5 1/4", 222 pages.

By James Baldwin
Illustrations by N. C. Wyeth

This Dover edition is a reprint of the 1932 title Sampo: Hero Adventures from the Finnish Kalevala. Wyeth color plates are on the covers, front, and inside.
Paperback, 5-1/2 " x 8-1/2".

The area we call Scandinavia, although united by geography, culture, language and history, is made up of five separate nations -- Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland. Included are national costumes, regional dress, bridal wear and festival and folk dance costumes. Also included are costumes of the Lapps, nomadic inhabitants of norrthern Scandinavia.
ISBN 0-486276-84-8

By Else Roesdahl, Translated by Susan M. Margeson and Kirsten Williams.
Far from being ''wild, barbaric, axe-wielding pirates'', the Vikings created complex social institutions, oversaw the coming of Christianity to Scandinavia and made a major impact on Europen history through trade, travel, and far-flung colonization. This encyclopaedic study brings together wide-ranging research on Viking art, burial customs, class divisions, jewellry, kingship, poetry and family life, and in this revised edition, has been updated to include recent discoveries. The result is a rich compelling picture of an extraordinary civilization.
Paperback, 5x8", 324 pages. ISBN 0-140252-82-7