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Years ago we had some friends who lived in Sweden. They would come to the US every few years, buy a car, drive it to NY and then ship it to Sweden Janssons Temptation. . They always made enough on the deal to pay for the trip and then some. Louise was a good cook and always made this for us when they were here. It’s a simple recipe but it’s worth a try. The potatoes are salted by the anchovies and the combination is delicious! Janssons Temptation
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Love Swedish food, and I'll definitely be trying Janssons Temptation. When I looked at the recipe didn't give an approximate weight for the spuds (some russets are ridiculously huge and others are much smaller). I went looking for other versions of the recipe and found this old NYT article by Craig Claiborne about Swedish cooking. https://www.nytimes.com/1983/0...-art-to-america.html That article is one of the digitized versions of the original print version so the formatting is funky. Here's a cleaned up version of the recipe. It has more anchovies and he says you use about 2 pounds of potatoes. https://cooking.nytimes.com/re...-janssons-temptation An interesting comment from the food.com website:
Other commenters say they use regular anchovies and they like it that way.
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I saw reference to sprats when I was looking for a recipe to post, but Louise just used good old ‘murrican anchovies for us and I thought it was terrific! It’s not really a gourmet preparation and I doubt it’s worth a trip to the gourmet store. She described it as a way to stretch a tin of anchovies to feed a family of 4.
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To be honest, I don't like sprats a whole lot and think the anchovies would be great. I just thought the discussion about recipe translations was kinda interesting. But if I did want to do the sprat experiment.. We have an unbelievable selection of ethnic foods around here. We have lots of Russian and Polish people, so weird canned fish is easy to find. Heck, I can even buy herring made in Lithuania in the refrigerated food sections of two grocery stores within 10 minutes of me.
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I would eat that. I would eat all of that… because no one else in the house would touch it.
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what's a sprat? I assume a fish? I like anchovies.
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They're little smoked sardines. The ones I've had are just packed in oil. https://www.melaniecooks.com/w...ow-to-eat-them/2354/ edit: I have a Swedish cookbook I picked up at IKEA years ago. I kind of forgot about it....it has a recipe for Janssons temptation and it uses the IKEA (actually a brand called Abba) "anchovies", which it turns out are really sprats.
The can that's shown in the photos are the ones I've seen at IKEA. https://wendall.org/omnivorous-bear/?p=1977 But these are the ones available online: https://europeandeli.com/produ...stads-anchoy-fillets
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