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congrats

i am on my way to the company's julemøde. i wonder what gifts they have in store for us this year

Have fun and anything available.

i did. far as i remember anyway

the s were - er - unusual this year, though: one bottle of , one bottle of , a box of s and six *tumblers* would you believe it?

oh, well, they'll make a nice for my eldest who just left home to live for himself

Where did I put my now...

Could anybody polish my memory - how do you make that rice and almond stuff you eat with cherry sauce?

Like a full recipe, you mean - or just the general outline...?

A full recipe would be better, just in case. I don't even know how it's called in Danish, so that I could search the web.

Ris á l'amande:

This is a very popular dessert during the holidays, especially among children, who win a present if they happen to be the lucky person who finds the whole almond in their serving of rice pudding. It is recommended that Part I of the recipe be made the evening before, so that the rice mixture is chilled before serving.

[indeed we have made ours today]

Part I
Make a mixture of rice porridge. The following instructions come from the PAMA GRØDRIS package and yields four (4) servings:

1-1/4 dl. grødris (pudding rice) [short, rounded rice best for "rice porridge"]
1-1/4 dl. water
1/2 liter milk

Sprink the rice into the boiling water and cook for two (2) minutes. Add the milk and bring the mixture to a boil, stirring constantly.
[they very easily go on the bottom of the pot - hence the stirring]

Place a cover on the pan and reduce the temperature to low. Cook for approximately 35 minutes, stirring frequently - until it's soft and not "liquid", but not overly mushy. Then remove from heat and add 1/2 spk (tablespoon) of sugar and three (3) tsk (teaspoons) of vanillesukker (vanilla sugar). Cool overnight in the refrigerator.

Part II
Before serving, add the following ingredients to the rice mixture: 50 grams of chopped, skinned almonds; one whole, skinned almond, and whipped cream from two dl of piskefløde (whipping cream). Blend thoroughly but with a light hand. Ris a l'amande is usually served in two bowls, one for the rice pudding and another bowl filled with kirsebærsauce (cherry sauce), which Danes usually spoon on top of the pudding.

Thank you ever so much! I've made that rice porridge thing already today but i was not sure what should I do next. We had it on out Danish dinner and it was ever so good.

Very slightly modified from one found on the 'net (gee - what did we do before )...

Port is very good to drink with it, imho (but then, I love port )

I guess we're going to have . It's so here and after church it'll take couple hours to warm up.

er, i don't want to quibbel over insignificant details, but seeing as this is a thread for learning danish i feel obliged to point out that the only proper way to spell it in danish is "risalamande". if it is any consolation to you, santragenius, spelling it wrong is a very common mistake indeed. i see it dozens of times every x-mas-season (i must admit i have done it myself many times before i became a sub editor and was payed to right the wrongs of my writing colleagues).

meanwhile, i like to cook my rice porridge by heating the milk until boiling, pouring the rice into it (150 gramms per liter whole milk) and stirring the porridge until it thickens. then i put the pot to bed and cover it with duvets. this saves both time (you don't have to stir it) and energy. After an hour or so i add a tablespoon of salt.

DONT' FORGET: water boils at 100 degrees, milk boils when you turn your back on it

We usually eat this porridge with cinnamon and sugar on top and a lump of butter. you can drink any kind of red fruit juice (usually a mix of -, black currant- and cherry-juice or the like) with it, but the tradition says hvidtøl, whis is a dark, sweet with very little alcohol, thus suited for children. It is wellknown in Denmark and Germany, but I haven't seen it anywhere else on

The remains of the porridge is mixed with whipped cream, skinned and chopped almonds, sugar and vanilla and served with hot cherry sauce as a desert on christmas eve, exactly as santragenius says. don't forget to put the one whole skinned almond in the pot! whoeever gets the almond and is entitled to the "mandelgave" ( = almond ), usually gets a marcipangris ( = piglet made of marzipan) or the like.

enjoy

Hmmm!

I boil the rice for risalamande (I'd better check the spelling...ok)in water because I find it too stuffy boiled in milk when one adds whipped cream as well.

In this family everyone buys a mandelgave and we have an almond for each person present.

It developed that way because my grandmother couldn't bear not to win the present. It spoiled her evening - and we kids wouldn't allow unfair cheating when we discovered that my mother PLACED the almond in my grandmothers plate .

My mandelgave this year is a feathery white heart on top of a one m tall steel rod...(it matches the bird in cage from you, Hati . They are both placed right beside my harddisc - for inspiration.

It tastes very however you spell it.
Atm I am busy with reading postcards in Danish.

Hi

I'm trying to tidy up my new harddisk and sort out the data recovered from the old - and found this from a (Danish) freelance collegue living and working i China:

Dansk kärlighedsglögg.

Smuldrede mandler
Valgfri rosiner
Rödvin
Cognac
Mandarinsaft
1 citron ­ saft og skal
Rörsukker ­ efter smag
4 store stave ingefär
Spidsen af 1 stang kanel
1 kardemommefrö
Portvin

Det hele undtagen rödvinen blandes. Skal staa (aa = å) og träkke mindst 3 ­ 4 timer, gerne längere (tilsät evt. 1 ­ 2 del rödvin). Herefter kommes mere mandarinsaft i sammen med lidt mere ingefär, og herefter kommes rödvin i.
Glöggen varmes op til ca. 30 grader. Smag til. Varmes yderligere op men maa ikke koge.

It might work

I won't get into brewing in that early hour of the day, I still have some w*rk to do.

Sounds My wife would like the thing about raisins free of choice...

But gløgg would go well with lunch, I'd say...

would NOT go well was what I intended to say..........!

I was already wondering...
It's so cold here that I am already considering having some glögg to make the evening better. I guess I should find somebody to come and join me.

i will be with you in spirit, hati

mind you: i will also be here in spirit