The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #12577   Message #982412
Posted By: Deckman
13-Jul-03 - 01:49 PM
Thread Name: Ethnic crossover
Subject: RE: Ethnic crossover
Sorcha ... Thanks for opening this thread again. Re-reading it has made me very hungry, and lonesome, for the comfort food of my childhood: "Ruisileppa", "Villi" and goat stew. My Grandmother, who immigrated to America from Finland in 1886, used to serve this meal to me. Ruisileppa was a large, round loaf of very course sougdough rye bread. The Villi was a cultured milk, something like a mix of yougurt and buttermilk. (I still have her original starter). And as she raised nanny goats for the milk, we also eat goat meat stew. CHEERS, Bob