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Tampa Bay Area Readers Share Krumkake, Old Sour Recipes

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Krumkake, a waffle cookie, is a Christmas treat made around the same time of year as sandbakkelse and rosettes cookies.

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By JEFF HOUCK | The Tampa Tribune

Published: November 18, 2008

Diana Boggs of Tampa wrote a few weeks back for a recipe for the North Dakota Norwegian dessert krumkake. As we noted with her request, the waffle cookie is a Christmas treat made around the same time of year as sandbakkelse and rosettes cookies.

Jane Gamble sent two recipes for krumkake (also known as strull).

"I hope a recipe or two from Minnesota will satisfy your reader," Gamble e-mails. "Minnesota has as many, if not more, people of Norwegian descent. I should know: I'm half, and I've lived in both states!"

Gamble's recipes come from the 1979 Highland Prairie Lutheran Church cookbook. The congregation in southeastern Minnesota was established in 1854 by Norwegian immigrants.

"Growing up in North Dakota, it was always exciting when it was time to make our annual krumkake," she says. "This is the recipe I still use every year."

Paulette Krug of Lake Placid found a recipe in the "Great American Cook Book" published in the 1940s. The book features regional U.S. recipes. The recipe for KrumKaker is from the Minnesota Scandinavian section of the book. Lynn Selke of Wimauma sent a similar recipe, as did Melodie (Olson) Voeltz of Tampa, who says she used to live in Williston, N.D.

Krug also notes that she went online at Target.com and found an electric KrumKake Express M839 iron for $49.99.

Sauce Request

Toni Fuente lives in Land O' Lakes. But when she lived in Tampa, her family used to frequent a restaurant named Montauro on Armenia Avenue, a few blocks south of Waters Avenue.

"They had the best spaghetti sauce I've ever tasted," Fuente writes. "The sauce was light and fresh with lots of flavor. It was Momma in the kitchen with her young daughter assisting, and Papa and son in the dining room busing the tables and making sure that you had enough to eat."

The restaurant since has closed and been torn down. Fuente wants the sauce recipe if someone is willing to share.

'Old Sour' Found

Violet Gibbs of Dade City wrote a couple of weeks ago to ask for a recipe her Floridia-born grandmother made called "Old Sour." The drink was made out of lemon juice and hot sauce.

Diane Haberman of Oldsmar, who says she has an extensive collection of Florida cookbooks, found one from "The Florida Cookbook" by Jeanne Voltz and Caroline Stuart (Random House, $19.95)

According to the book, Haberman says, the purpose of the mixture was to preserve key limes in season to use when ripe fruit was scarce. Legend has it that Old Crow whiskey bottles were the container of choice, because the color and glass kept the sauce the best.

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KRUMKAKE

Flavor with vanilla or brandy (1/2 to 1 teaspoon)

Mix sugar, melted butter and beaten eggs well. Add milk and flavoring, mix. Add flour and mix until smooth. Bake on krumkake iron.

KRUMKAKE or STRULL

1/2 to 1 teaspoon vanilla or cardamom

Combine ingredients. Pour portions onto surface of krumkake iron. Bake until crisp. Makes 100 krumkakes.

KRUMKAKER (ROLLED WATER)

1/4 teaspon salt

Mix ingredients together thoroughly and pour portion of batter into krumkake iron. Close tightly. When thoroughly baked, roll up on the cone cylinder until cool. Makes 8 servings.

OLD SOUR

A few drops of hot sauce

Strain lime juice through cheesecloth in a strainer into a clean bottle. Add salt, hot sauce. Shake the bottle well and tie a square of clean cloth over the top of the bottle. Let the sauce age in a dark cupboard for 6 to 8 weeks. It should have an acidic, salty flavor with a bite on the tongue. Cork the bottle. The sauce will keep indefinitely.

Looking for a recipe? Write to Jeff Houck, The Tampa Tribune, P.O. Box 191, Tampa FL 33601; or e-mail jhouck@tampatrib.com.

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