{"id":2222,"date":"2021-12-16T12:06:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T19:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=2222"},"modified":"2021-12-16T12:06:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T19:06:55","slug":"julfest-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=2222","title":{"rendered":"Julfest Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/121621_1906_JulfestTime1.png\" alt=\"\"\/>At this time of year, Norwegians enjoy a Julfest to celebrate the solstice and the festival of Christmas.\n<\/p>\n<p>Some parts of the U. S. hold large events with Nordic Markets and bonfires. They serve traditional Norwegian treats such as lefse, pickled herring, pea soup, and cookies, lots and lots of cookies.\n<\/p>\n<p>Our local Sons of Norway lodge held a Julfest this month. We focused on the cookies for our party. Everyone brought some to exchange.\n<\/p>\n<p>A few people brought more modern recipes, but several of the traditional cookies appeared as well:\n<\/p>\n<ol style=\"margin-left: 38pt\">\n<li>Krumkake\u2014a waffle cookie made on a two-sided iron griddle,\n<\/li>\n<li>Sandbakkelse\u2014sand tarts made in tins of different shapes\n<\/li>\n<li>Pepperkakker\u2014spiced cookies\n<\/li>\n<li>Spritz cookies\u2014a simple cookie dough pressed through a decorative disk\n<\/li>\n<li>Fattigmann\u2014dough twisted into a fancy shape and deep fried\n<\/li>\n<li>Serinakaker\u2014Norwegian butter cookies\n<\/li>\n<li>Rosettes\u2014deep fried lacy treats made with a special rosette iron\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>After the Julfest, my husband\/tech advisor and I took home a heaping plate of all sorts of cookies. We have been enjoying them all week.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this time of year, Norwegians enjoy a Julfest to celebrate the solstice and the festival of Christmas. Some parts of the U. S. hold large events with Nordic Markets and bonfires. They serve traditional Norwegian treats such as lefse, pickled herring, pea soup, and cookies, lots and lots of cookies. Our local Sons of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-genealogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2223,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions\/2223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}