San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-10-01
A NORWEGIAN MEAL.
Some of tho Novel Dishes That
Make Up a Formal Dinner.

Some or tho mover DISHES lhat
Make Up Formal Dinner.
Murray's
A neat maid with a beautiful COM
plexion, announced dinner, and Prof.
Helberg, who offered me his seat at
table, said, Velcomen til bordet,
welcome to the board, a pretty way
OF expressing hospitality.
The table was charmingly arranged
with quaint.old Norwegian silver and
beautifully fine embroidered linen.
The silver drinking cups, of various
shapes, had usually little round,
tinkling things hanging from them as
an ornamen tation; these bangles give
light and pretty effect, and are
quite old Norwegian style. Some of
the spoons with their quantity twis.
ted handles, were also very pretty.
The menu was excellent, and in
our honor had been composed Ofpure
ly representative foods.
First of all, we had a delicious
white soup made from cod in which
fioated small balls of the fish, along
with the French beans that had pre-
yiously been prepared, by being soak
ed in vinegar and sugar. This soap
sounds curious melange, but 1T was
really excellent. Next csme pre-
pared fish served In a souffle dish,
something like kegeree, only without
any rice. A white sauce was handed
with this, and the capers served Sc
perately, wonderful to relate, we had
fish knives, still great luxury
abroad.
Cold ham tongue and peas, pretti-
ly arranged together on one dish,
were next handed round; and than
came hot ptarmigan, which in its ma
tive land, we'll larded, and with a
thick Norwegian, sauce, is an excell-
eat dish. With this we had compete
of rasberries, red current jelly and
preserved ginger.
Multer are delicious. They are
yellow fruit about the size oil mulber-
ries. They grow on low bushes in
the Norwegian mountains, the fruit
and flowers bearing simultaneously.
They are picked in October, ond pre-.
served. and served cold with cream.
They have slight favor of pine trees
if such thing is possible, but they
are fascinating food.
Two or three kinds of bread were
eaten; the white rolls, black bread
which closely resembles German pun.
pernickel, and fiat erod, a bread or
cake made from rye, and first cousin
to Scotch oat-cake.
Hook and claret were drunk during
dinner, and sweet champagne served
with the pudding and dessert.
After dessert We had cheese, and
the neal ended.
Skole is really a Swedish word of
drinking your health, and almost
every time any one drank anything
they smilingly skoled across to some
one, who therelpen putting down
the glass. We, as guests, were skoled
by everyone in turn, until at last this
health drinking became quite alarm
ing, and we merely bowed In self
defense.
With many thanks from our host
for kindly dining with him, and
many invitations for the future "a
universally pretty form of politeness)
our host offered me his arm, and We
walked back to the drawing room.
After few minutes conversation the
gentleman left us to smoke.
Excellent coffee. with scalded
VI OoDi, &c bhCh
by Swedish punch, delicious a.
though somewhat sweet liquor. Our
hostess produced large, handsome
cut-glass bottle of eau-Ge- Cologne, to
which her friends literally helped
themselves. Every one was kindness
itself, and every one waited to know
thdrere was any service they could
odruer US; ifso they were quite at
etc.