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Cooking Danish: A Taste of Denmark

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I have purchased 2 books one as a gift. The recipes are well written and beautifully illustrated. I have used the recipes to make, Grav Laks, Smorkage, Danish Mustard, Fish Sauce, Fars Fars Ryebread. The results are great and best of all the instructions favor the American kitchen and limitations of not having a Euro market in your neighborhood. I think you will be pleased with this book.

I got this cookbook as a gift from my sister, as we are a quarter Danish but never really learned much about traditional Danish foods. This book has a fantastic variety of recipes & is well illustrated. I mean seriously - beer to raspberry jelly, aebleskiver to split pea soup, marzipan to bread. The first chapter is all on open faced sandwiches. I grew up in California & always felt like Danish foods from places like Solvang were really heavy and fattening, or had herring (which I can't stand). Yes, this cookbook does have all of that, but it also has recipes you could picture in a contemporary American kitchen. DH & I loved the split pea soup. We also made several of the open faced sandwich recipes including a salami one & a shrimp one. When you focus on the presentation more than gigantic American portions, it's not so overwhelming. I also tried the aebleskiver, which isn't as good as my family's passed down recipe (what coobkook recipe ever is?) but I liked the addition of the cardamom so I learned from that. I also can't wait to try the jelly & marzipan recipes, but I doubt we'll be making the beer as we're not big drinkers. Like I said - great variety of recipes that gives you a taste of Danish flavors.

Great cookbook - amazing photography. It is nice to find a Danish cookbook in English and with American short cuts when possible. The recipes are will written and we have enjoyed trying new things.

I enjoyed the format and recipes and the fact that they were so well written that they actually came out as prepared. From my point of view, a good recipe is one that requires the least ingredients and produces the best results...this book has fulfilled that concept.

These are not obscure recipes with impossible-to-find ingredients. The food in here is homey, comforting, and exactly like I remember from my grandmother's kitchen. It feels like an heirloom of family favorites cultivated over generations, handed down from parent to child.

This is the book that I have been trying find for years, my husbands family is Danish but his grandmother never wrote the anything down so this book was a God send, And this Thanksgiving it was a Danish style fest of Medisterpolse, red cabbage and Brun sauce over the potatoes with RodGrod med Flode { Red Berry Pudding } for desert. YUM!!! If you have only seen the meal cooked and never helped this is book for you very easy to follow recipes and everything is step by step. Thank you Mr. Stig Hansen for this book.

I went to a cooking class that Stig taught and he cooked a traditional Danish Christmas meal. I love the roasted duck and the rice pudding. I bought this book and it's been very fun making Danish food. The cookbook is great quality, the instructions are clear and detailed and the pictures are great. I would recommend this cooking book for anyone that wants to try making Danish food.

This is a collection of Danish recipes adopted for the American kitchen (metric units converted).
The book covers a wide range of Danish dishes and is richly illustrated.
It makes a perfect gift for Danes visiting American friends :-)