Frikadeller

Ken recounts how he has many good memories of family get togethers and the good food. One special of Dagmar's cooking that he remembers, is her Danish frikadeller. I have not run across her recipe, but am instead including the one I use. It is one for the recipes for Frikadeller in the Danish Sisterhood cookbook. I have prepared this often and also use the sweet sour sauce recipe I will post with the Frikadeller recipe.

Date Pudding

Doris requested the Date Pudding recipe. She recalls: "It was our
traditional New Years Eve treat. The family would gather around the old
dining room table to play Monopoly until midnight when Mom would bring
out the date pudding topped with farm fresh whipped cream!"


There are some great old photos that I will post with the recipes, so keep checking this blog!

Dagmar with her Self Service Cream and Eggs

Dagmar added a new self service cream and egg stand in the garage of the new farm house that Rasmus and she built in 1959-1960. This photo is the refirgerator to hold the cream and eggs, the shelf with the jars for cream and the eggs and Dagmar holding a jar of the thick cream. The blackboard behind the shelf dispayed the prices and there was a box on the shelf for people to leave the money for the items they purchased. (The blackboard with the prices for the last time she sold eggs and cream, is still in the same place in the garage.)
200 laying hens were added after the move to the new house, and they were housed in a part of the old house that Ken pulled to a location directly west of the new house and was turned into the chicken house.
The cream was known for being extremely thick. Ken loves to relate a story about a fellow who came one day and was describing to his friend how the cream was so thick that you could turn the jar upside down and it wouldn't run out. After this fellow removed the lid and turned the jar upside down, he was pretty suprised to have the cream all dump out on the garage floor! It turned out the cream was fresh that morning and still very liquid!

Coffee Cake

This recipe was handwritten by Doris and was in her mother's recipe box. If you can't read these handwritten ones, I will retype them under the recipe card. Please let me know.
Enjoy! Bon Appetit!

Lauritzen Family Recipe Blog

This Lauritzen Family recipe blog site is the modern version of sharing family recipes. I "inherited" Dagmar's recipe boxes and books when we moved to the farm. After we moved here, I started a project to scan the orignal recipes written in Dagmar's perfect handwriting and intended to make a cookbook for all the families. After crashing the file, it has sat on the "back burner" since that time. After reading about a food blog site, I thought this would be fun way for the family to share the recipes.

Since food and family are so intertwined and bring such wonderful memories of good times together, this blog site should provide a place for everyone to comment, place remembrances and recipes.

I am starting the blog with a photo of Dagmar and her father and a card I found in the back of the recipe box for the amounts of ingredients used for the family Christmas in 1970.