Here you can see some of the recipes from the Comenius cookbook.

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Image1.gif (6870 bytes)Traditional:        Baltic herring rolls, Karelian Roast
Youngsters:       Meatballs, Banana shake
Head´s choice:  Salomon casserole

Traditional:        Danish steak, Pancakes
Youngsters:        Burgers, Pitabread


Traditional:        Leek and potato soup, Smoked fish (Haddock)
                          with sinach sauce
Youngsters:        Apple pancake pie
 
                  
Traditional:         Jansson´s temtation, Sailor´s casserole, Raw
                           spiced salomon
Youngsters:         Elephant´s ear with onions, garlic butter and fried
                                              potato, Meatsauce
                    Head´s choice:    Oriental prawnpan

                                 

BALTIC HERRING ROLLS         Traditional

1 kg baltic herrings
1 tbs. salt
10 allspices
2-3 bayleaves
1-2 onions
1 dl winegar
5 dl water
1 dl sugar
1. Clean and wash the baltic herrings.
2. Roll the baltic herring fillets from the tail.
3. Put the rolls in layers in a saucepan with onionrings, all spices and bayleaves.
4. Mix vinegar,water and sugar.Pour the mixture over the baltic herring rolls so that they barley get covered.
5. Cook the baltic herrings gently 10-15 min.

KARELIAN ROAST     Traditional

200 g roast beef
200 g shoulder of pork
1 tsp salt
5 allspices
1 small onion
1 bay leaf
2 dl water
1. Cut the meat into pieces and put to a pan with spices.

2. Add water.

3. Stew 1½ hours in the oven in 200 degree celsius.

MEATBALLS       Youngsters

300g minced meat
3/4 bread crumb
1 dl water
1 onion
(1 a clove of garlic)
1 ts salt
1/4 ts white pepper
1 ts red pepper
1. Mix the bread crumb and the liquid in a big bowl.
2. Peel and cut the onion (and the garlic) into small pieces.
3. Add to the bread crumb the onion,the egg,spices and the minced meat.Mix the dough even.
4. Bake the dough into a roll on a wet working board.Divide it into equal sized pieces and roll them into balls whit wet hands.
Roasting:
Way one: Put the balls to baking plate on grease proofe paper.Roast in the upper level of the oven in 225 degrees celsius about 12-15 minutes.

Way two: Make oil hot.Add the balls little to a pan and shake it ,so that the balls move and get a fine form.

Mikko Lemola and Aki Lankinen

BANANA SHAKE      Youngsters

1 banana
1 tbs vanilja ice cream
1tbs honey
1½ dl milk
3/4 dl plain youghurt
1. Peel and slice banana.
2. Pour all ingredients of the shake into blender. Put on the lid and switch on the machine for a minute.
3. Take the can off. The banana shake should be ready now and served
immediately.

SALMON CASSEROLE 4 persons           Head´s recipe

2½ dl rice
1 tin of salmon or
fresh salmon
3 onions
Oil
white pepper
2-3 dl single cream
dill
Cook the rice in boiling water with salt. Peel the onions cut them in to slices and braise in oil til onions are golden. Butter the dish and put in layers of rice, onions and then salmon. The lower with salt and upper most Layer should be rice. Mix pinch of white pepper and single cream and pour it in to the dish. Put some pats of butter on top. Let the dish stay in the ownen for 30 min in 200 degrees celsius. Sprinkle the casserole with dill before you serve it. Serve with fresh green salad.

 

DANISH STEAK (Dansk böf) 4 portions       Traditional

2 big onions
75g butter
600-800g beef without
bones or fat
5-6 spoons full of flour
salt
peper
4 decilitres of soup
colour
Fry thinly cut onions to a brown colour in half of the butter. Chop the meat oncec in a machine and shape them to round steaks. 6-8pcs. Turn them in flour added with salt and peper and fry them in the rest of the butter on a well heated pan , 3-4 min on each side. The pan is boiled out with soup or potatowater and the sauce is thikened with the rest of the flour. Let the sauce boil for 5-10 min. One third of the onions can be added to the sauce. Adjust the taste and add colour. The rest of the onions are spread over the steaks and the sauce is added. Serve with boiled potatoes, large cucumbers and raw vegetables.

Sigurd L. Thorsen

PANCAKES      Traditional

9 Ounces flour
A half teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar
5 dl milk
3-4 eggs
3 tablespoons
oil
Mix it all together, until it gets a very light brown colour, with no lumps in it.
Put some of the clough on the pan,until it coveres the pan.
Eat the pancakes with: Icecream, jam and suger.

Sören Haubjerg 

BURGERS    4 portions       Youngsters

1 pound/500g chopped beef
salt and peper
2-3 teaspoonful butter or margarine
Accessories:
4 burgerbuns
cucumber or pickles
tomatoes
salad
cheese
fried bacon
Form the meat into hamburgers, and fry then in the fat, until they get brown. Turn down the heat and fry them until they are ready. Toast the burgerbuns, and cut them in to halves. Put in the accessories and the steak.

Sönder and Bambi

PITABREAD   4 Persons      Youngsters

8 pitabread
1 cucumber
4 tomatoes
1 tin tuna
4 eggs
dressing
1 red or green pepper
1 salad
1 union
1 tin carn
1 tin pease
3 carrots
Turn on the oven on 200 celsius. Cut the salad in pieces, and put it in a bowl. Cut cucumber, tomatoes, union, pepper and carrot in tern, and put it in the salad. Open the corns and the peases, slant the water from, and put them in the salad.
Make some water boiling. When the water boiling, put then the egg in. They shall be there for 9 minuits. Cut them in slices,and put them in the bowl.
Open a tintuna and put it a bowl.
Put the pitabread in the oven in 3 or 4 minuets. Put all the bowls on a table.
How you eat it:

You cut the top of the pitabread and put the salad, the tuna and the eggs in the pitabread. At last you slant the dressing down in pitabread offshore the stuffing.

You can enjoy it with a cold soda.

Nanna and Ane

 

LEEK AND POTATO SOUP     Traditional

Wash and cut up two leeks. Take three medium potatoes and peel them and cut them up into cubes 5 x 5 cm. Put 2 gms of butter in a pan and heat gentily. Add the leeks and potato and allow to cook for 10 minutes. Now add 280 ml of chicken stock and 100 ml of milk. Allow to cook gentily for 25 minutes. Put everything into a blender and blend for 10 seconds. Return to the pan and add some cream. Serve with freshly made toast. A wonderful soup for a cold day-

Mr Shiptons faourite.

 SMOKED FISH (HADDOCK) WITH SPINACH SAUCE
Traditional

4 pieces of fish 175 gms each skinned and boned
275 ml milk
fresh milled (ground) pepper

For the sauce:
200 gms of butter
5 ml lemmon juice
3 egg yolks
2 table spoons of chopped chives
salt
900 gms fresh spinach

Make the sauce by gentily melting the butter in a pan. Blend the eggs and gentily add the melted butter plus some salt and pepper to taste. When the sauce has thickenned slowly add the lemmon. Keep the sauce hot by placing it over a basin of boiling water.

Cook the fish in milk (called poaching in Eng land) for 6-7 minutes. At the same time cook the spinach - melt 25 gms of butter add spinach cover and cook on a medium heat for 4 minutes. When cooked drain off liquid and cover to keep warm.

To serve devide spinach between four and put fish on the top of spinach. Whisk the sauce and add the chives. Pour over fish and serve straight away.

 

APPLE PANCAKE PIE 6 persons       Youngsters

For 6 people you need:

250 ml of milk
100 gms of sugar
50 gms of self raising flour
2 eggs
vanilla extract
pinch of salt
5 apples

In a bowl mix the flour sugar and salt. Add the eggs to make a better. Mix till smooth and add the vanilla. Peel the apples and take and cut into slices 0,5cm thick. Lay the apples in a dish and pur the batter over the apples. Cook in an oven at 220 for ten minutes then heat down to 160 and cook for 30 minutes.

Server with lots of cream.

 

Jansson´s temptation (4 servings)         Traditional

Ingredients:


8-10 potatoes
2 yellow onions
20 filés of tinned sprat
3 dl milk or cream
1 tablespoon bread crumbs
2 tablespoons butter

1. Peel the potato and the onions.
2. Shred the potato and chop the onions.
3. Take turns with putting potato, onion and filés of sprat down into an oven proof dish. Begin and end with potato.
4. Pour cream or milk and the gravy from the can of sprats over everything.
5. Put little pieces of butter and the bread crumbs on top.
6. Cook in the oven (225*C) for 40 minutes.
7. Serve with bread and butter, and maybe a mixed sallad.

SAILOR´S CASSEROLE  4 people    Traditional

Ingredients:

500 grams of beef in 3 mm slices
3 yellow onions
3 tablespoons of margarine or oil
2 dl water
12 potatoes
2 teaspoons of salt
a grain of black pepper
1 bottle of dark beer, or broth parsley

1. Slice the meat.
2. Peel and chop the onions. Fry it in ¾ of the margarine, and take it out when it is brown.
3. Add the rest of the margarine and fry the meat.
4. Take the meat out and pour water into the pan.
5. Peel the potato and cut it into pieces. Put it into a casserole together with the meat and the onions. Save some potato to put on the top.
6. Add spices.
7. Pour the water/gravy and the beer on top of everything. Boil under lid for about 45 minutes.
8. Add parsley on top before you serve it!

RAW SPICED SALOMON    (4-6 servings)     Traditional

1 kilo salmon in two filés
2-3 teaspoons whole white pepper
1/2 dl salt
1/2 dl sugar
2 bunches of dill
1. Crush the white pepper together with salt and sugar.
2. Chop the dill.
3. Put some of the salt mix and some of the dill at the bottom of a plate.
4. Put one piece of salmon on top of the mix, with the meat side up.
5. Add some salt mix and dill on top.
6. Put down the other piece on top of the other, with the meat side down.
7. Put the rest of the salt mix and the dill.
8. Cover the plate and let it be in the fridge for 2 days. Turn the salmon over a couple of times during that time.
Raw spiced sauce

2-3 tablespoons mustard
1 tablespoon sugar
1/2-1 tablespoon vinegar
2 grains of salt
1/2 grain white pepper
3 tablespoons oil
2-3 tablespoons finecut dill

ELEPHANT´S EAR WITH ONIONS, GARLIC
BUTTER AND FRIED POTATO
  4 Servings
     Youngsters

4 fillets of veal
2 yellow onions

For garlic butter:
60 grams of butter
or margarine
2 cloves of garlic
(parsley)

1. Choose 4 big thin fillets of veal.
2. Pound it flat between grease proof paper or handiwrap.
3. Fry in oil in a fryingpan, or grill in a grillpan, half a minute a side.
4. Peel and slice the onions and fry in some margarine until it is golden. Put on a plate with the meat.
5. Mix butter (roomtempered) with the garlic and the parsley. Form it into a roll and let it cool in the fridge for a while. Slice and serve on warm meat!
Serve with fried potato!
FRIED POTATO
4 Servings

10 potatoes
2 tbs margarine
1 dash of salt
(garlic)

1. Peel and cut the potatoes into thin slices. Rinse well.
2. Put margarine in a pan, and put the potato into it, too.
3. Fry in the oven, 225 degree for 30 minutes.
4. Turn the potatoes over once in a while.
5. Add salt and garlic.

MEATSAUCE  (4 servings)      Youngsters

2 yellow onions
2 tablespoons margarine
200-300 grams of minced meat
1 tablespoon flour
3-4 tablespoons tomato purée
2-2 1/2 dl water
1 bouillon cube
1 teaspoon salt
1 grain of oregano or thyme
parsley
1 garlic clove
1. Peel and chop the onion. Fry it in the margarine until it is soft.
2. Add the minced meat and add the flour.
3. Add the tomato purée, water and the bouillon cube.
4. Add the spices.
5. Boil under lid for at least 10 minutes.
6. Put parsley on top and serve with spaghetti!!!

ORIENTAL PRAWNPAN       Headmaster´s favourite

Ingredients:
2 pounds (1 kg) prawns
2 ounces (50 g) butter
2-3 teaspoons curry powder
1 teaspoon paprika powder
3-4 squeezed garlic cloves
1 bit leek
1 red pepper
5-7 ounces (150-200 g) champignons
1 tablespoon mushroom soy
3 gills (4 dl) double cream
5-6 tablespoons tomato purée
2 gills (2 1/2 dl) creme fraiche (sour cream)
herb salt
1 gill (1/2 dl) white wine
chopped parsley
Frizzle the butter and mix it with curry and paprika powder, squeezed garlic, sliced leek, sliced pepper and sliced champignons. Let it simmer together 10-15 minutes.

Add mushroom soya, tomato purée and cream and let it boil. Finally you put in creme fraiche, wine and the peeled prawns. Heat it up quickly and taste it.

Sprinkle over a little parsley.

Serve with rice.