För Alltid Svensk~ Forever Swedish

Swedish celebrations in central Wisconsin?

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:25:00 +0000

Hello Terry,

My name is Birgitta and I live in Wausau with my husband. My daughter with family is also here in Wausau and we are interested to know if you know about any swedes in our area. Especially now when Christmas is coming up and we would like to celebrate Lucia and other holiday activities.

Like to hear from you

Best regards

Birgitta Stroede

Can anyone of our members help Birgitta?

Max 1800-tal Emigrationens ?rhundrade.

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:11:00 +0000

Hej!

To see that documentry from UR , ( I cant find a link... ) do like this: google UR .SE (utbildnings radion) go to UR.SE /PLAY

then PROGRAM A- Ö , choose M , MAX 1800-TAL, then: "MAX 1800-TAL EMIGRATIONENS ÅRHUNDRADE"

textning for swedish undertitling, then you should be able to see the program on the computer, its about half an hour , very interesting.

Good luck , from Daniel.

From Daniel

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:41:00 +0000

Hallo Terry!

I found some nice old photos, with a swedish connection!

Regads , Daniel

http://content.lib.washington.edu/heggweb/index.html

thanks again Daniel--as always very interesting.

Swedish Historical maps and pictures from Daniel

Thu, 06 May 2010 12:31:00 +0000

Hallo Terry!

I found a map from the good old Sweden..., i also found some (interesting) stuff to read from Dr. Folke Hedblom " Swedish dialects in the mid west; notes from field research."

if you want i can try to copy and send /mail it.

http://www.wdl.org/en/item/1225/?ql=eng&c=SE&view_type=gallery

Egg Coffee from Jan & Anki

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:57:00 +0000

Egg coffe, it is really fundamentally Swedish?

I have heard of the following two mixtures:

An egg, a real lump of coconut and 1 teaspoon cocoa whisked sharply by about 1 ½ decilitre hot coffee.

Another kind of egg coffe:

A raw egg with shell and all, and a pinch of salt stirred into new roast ground coffee. The mixture is poured into the boiling water, which generates an abundant foam is cooled with cold water. Pot is lifted by the plate and the mixture may interfere. The egg shells and put on pan bottom and clear the coffee is formed on top.

Egg Coffee -comment

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:54:00 +0000

I remember my mother, born in Sweden in 1908, making coffee with egg

while picnicing; using a Coleman stove for heat ( this was in the

1950's). She would get a metal coffee pot, add water and put it on

the stove to boil up. Then, she mixed one egg (minus shell) with a

measured amount of ground coffee and added that to the boiling water.

After a few minutes, the coffee was ready to serve. I believe the egg

was added to bind the coffee grounds when you did not have a straining

basket to hold them in. I remember this clearly because my Dad took

movies of her doing this once at the VASA park in Lapeer, MI.

Mary Brodzik

Egg Coffee - comment

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:51:00 +0000

Hi Terry;

When I grew up - in the 1930s there were still some "old" people who put an egg in the coffee. Some only used the whites others the whole egg. My grandma did, but my mom never did as far as I can remember. Of course with coffee pots changing there was no need to clear the coffee with eggs any more. The ones who used the "egg method" usually had a pot of coffee on the stove all day - in case of company showing up. You always offered coffee and cookies or cakes to visitors.... even if they just dropped by for a few minutes. I'm sure my mom drank as much as 25-30 cups of coffee in a day. Of course, the European coffee cups are smaller than the American, but still that's a lot of coffee. She died in 2007 at 97 years of age, so it didn't kill her to drink coffee. She was so glad when we arrived, ten days before she died, because now she could get some good coffee again. The "hemhjälpen" girls wouldn't brew her any. They had so many old shut ins to visit and help that they didn't stay very long at anyone's place. So,they only warmed water for tea, and she hated tea, especially lukewarm tea!

My sister, on the other hand, never drank a cup of coffee in her life. She loved tea. She died in 2004 of a fast type of leukemia. I was there when she died, too. The Swedes like their coffee strong. I have to have cream in it - usually coffee cream - more like our whipping cream. I also make my coffee stronger than most Americans AND I like my cream in it! Hope to talk to you again! Anita

On Jan 11, 2010, at 10:13 AM,

Swedish egg coffee

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:47:00 +0000

I just got an interesting note from a lady asking if we would be serving

Swedish egg coffee at our meetings.

To my knowledge we have never done that, I guess perhaps mostly because we

use modern type coffee pots. I used to make it in a graniteware pot on an

old wood cookstove in my kitchen.

Just wondering if anyone is still making this or if they have any

interesting stories or memories about it. I have seen recipes with just the

whites or with the whole egg which includes the shell too.

It is considered Swedish but is it Swedish American--something just the

immigrants made or do they make coffee like this in Sweden too.

Love to hear from you all. Tack Terry