Yesterday we were having some early christmas guests, just before the guests was arriving I took out the trash and I cut my left hand so badly, on a tin, that my whife had to drive me to the hospital. On the hospital it turned out that the cut was so deep that it had dammaged the muscles to the thumb and the wound had to be stitced with 6 stitches.
It was now up to our 2 sons to lay the table and welcome the guests. When we came home they were all sitting around the table drinking GlĆøgg (hot red wine with spices, Almonds and Raisins) and eating Ćbleskiver (not sure how to translate that, word for word it would be apleslices, but hereās a pic
, they are realy tasty).
Well I guess the boys areānt as bad as they sometimes are in the everyday! !. At least there is some sunlight in the story .
Now Iām sitting here, hand all tied up in bandeges and it hurts like hell when Iām trying to play the whistle and flute . The good news is that itās just muscle damage so Iāll soon be able to play again . More sunlight
TAKE CARE OFF TINCANS THEY CAN DO AUWFULL CUTS.
MAY YOU ALL HAVE A GOOD AND MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR .
OUCH! Tin can be absolutely terribleāglad you can make a full recovery. Keep playing a little at a time, to help keep the scar tissue from being too tight.
And yes, kids are little devils (my girl just turned 16āArrrgh!) but when thereās a real problem, they will pitch in and be just great too.
Here in Minnesota, we call them āebleskiverā. What else can you call them, after all? Well, yeah, in local restaurants that serve them, they tend to be described as āDanish apple pancakesā, but theyāre not quite pancakes; theyāre more of a fritter. Only theyāre not deepfried. Theyāre neither fish nor fowl, a realm unto themselves. So, āebleskiverā must do. Any MinneScando knows what they are. Or ought to, anyway. And donāt ask me to pronounce it. It wonāt be the same as the Danish from the Danish Iāve heard, and youāll laugh at me.
pjuuldk, I use this can opener:
Itās a Good Cook brand safety can opener that detaches the lid rather than cutting it, and itās easy to use. You just pop off the lid with your hand when youāre done, and no sharp edges. Iām sure there are other brands, but I can recommend this one, definitely. Iām very glad I bought it.
I hope your hand heals up quickly, pjuuldk. A cut on a finger is so terribleāit makes everything hard to do and it is so easy to bang it and hurt it. But what a nice thing to see that your sons were able to be the hosts when you couldnāt be there----that is a good Christmas gift to know that they are civilized fellows .
That is an interesting can-opener, Nano. Iāll have to look into thatāIāve never heard of anything other than the regular type.
Thanks for the kind words everyone , this is an amasing place. If you need a litle sympaty, put in a few words and you will be overwelmed. Thanks.
Som comments:
Thanks for the tip about the can opener Nanohedron, but the cans was of the kind with a ring to pull and the lid comes of.
Take care of those lids, they are razor sharpe .
Aanvil Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 2:06 pm Post subject:
Ah! Appleskeversā¦ well that is what we called them.
Growing up the family would make a trip to Solvang, CA at least once a year.
Heck it was part of the reason for the road trip.
I have some Finn freinds that will make Glugg. Is that the same thing?
Was the tin can episode before or after the Glugg?
Glad to hear you are on the mendā¦ careful now!
I belive that GlĆøgg is an inter scandinavian thing, I know they drink it in Sweden, so why not in Finland.
The tin can episode was before GlĆøgg and Ćbleskiver, infact they had eaten allmost alle the Ćbleskiver when we came home, only leaving a couple each to my whife and me.
About the Ćbleskiver, to confuse the thing, it has nothing to do with apple slices, nothing at all. Why is it called that I donāt know.
The pancake thing, well perhaps itās because they are made in one of theese:
Waidaminnit. Are you saying that real Danish Ćbleskiver have no apple in them? When Iāve had them in the States, they always had little apple bits mixed in.
Iād heard rumors of them but never seen one. I think I got it a year or two ago at a Target store, if memory serves, so you might not have to travel far afield or shop online for one. I think theyāre more common now than in the past. Seriously, after years of wrangling with often-temperamental and effortsome lid-cutting openers, this one is a real joy.
But the name, pronounced ay-bla-skeever (not sure about that)
Well itās kind of like learning the whistle, practise does it.
But these dayes most people buy them readymade, frozen, just to put in the oven.
They are actually quite good.
Ćbleskiver have been made since the 17th century. Back then pieces of apple were dipped in a dough and fried on a pan. Hence the name (Ćbleskiver would be āslices of appleā in english). Later on (I havenāt got a clue as to when, why and how) they developed into the Ʀbleskiver we have nowadays. In the old days, however (about a hundred years ago) slices of apple were put into them, at least, that was how my great-grandmother made them.
They are really easy to makeā¦
Oh by the way, let me introduce myself. Iām Charlotte and I have played the whistle for 3 days now. And Iād better stop playing for today otherwise my neighbour will surely send me some hard stares. I have tried to hit the high A and D for the last hour or so, but Iām not that successful. Ah well, perhaps tomorrow..
Hey, maybe I can find some in a grocery store when we go through Minneapolis in a few days. They have many Scandinavian foods in the stores there. That would be fun to try them. I am sure I would like frozen ones just fine.
Hello, Charlotte! Itās nice to meet you under these rather odd circumstancesāa thread about a cut thumb turns into a discussion about aebleskiver and suddenly we meet another member from Denmark who makes aebleskiver and plays the whistle----but does not have a cut finger I hope. Welcome! You will get the trick of the high notes----you do blow a bit harder, but youāll find that it helps to make some changes in your throat, tongue, cheeks, and lips----just the way you do if you are whistling a tune with your lips and you change the pitch, all those parts of your mouth work together to go from low to high and vice versa. It isnāt complicated, just a bit of a trick. Once you get it, it becomes automatic. It took me longer than 3 days to get the knack of itābut I am probably rather slow.
, Damned 
, DAMNED!!! 
!. At least there is some sunlight in the story 
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. The good news is that itās just muscle damage so Iāll soon be able to play again 
. More sunlight 
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