Subject: RECIPE: Jansson's temptation (traditional Swedish dish)
From: [email-masked] (Anders Rantila)
Date: 13 Mar 87 04:11:10 GMT
Newsgroups: mod.recipes

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.RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE JANSSON M "20 Jan 87" 1987
.RZ "JANSSON'S TEMPTATION" "A kind of gratin with potatoes"
This is one of the dishes at a real Swedish smorgasbord. It is often served
with beer and salad as a night meal at parties.
.PP
Jansson is the family name of the person who invented this dish. Every
Swede knows about Jansson's Temptation, but nobody knows just who Jansson
was.
.IH "Serves 2"
.IG "1" "onion"
.IG "4\-5" "potatoes"
.IG "3\-4 oz" "fillet of anchovy" "100 g" 
.IG "2/3 cup" "double cream" "150 ml" 
.IG "" "bread crumbs"
.IG "" "butter"
.PH
.SK 1
Chop the onion finely. Peel the potatoes and cut them in strips. Chop the
anchovy.
.SK 2
Put potatoes, onion and anchovy in layers in a greased pan. Make sure
that the top layer has only potatoes showing. Pour the cream over it. Sprinkle
on some bread crumbs and some pats of butter. 
.SK 3
Bake in oven for about 40 minutes at 
.TE 400 200
until the potatoes are soft. 
.NX
If you are the ``Jane Fonda'' type, you can mix milk and cream, instead of
only cream. 
.SH RATING
.I Difficulty:
easy.
.I Time:
20 minutes preparation, 40 minutes baking.
.I Precision:
No need to measure.
.WR
Anders Rantila 
CS Dept, Univ of Linkoping, Sweden
seismo!mcvax!enea!liuida!ara