There are several traditinal ways to serve lut(e)fisk in Sweden: with white sauce (becahmel sauce), green peas, melted butter, mustard sauce, salt, ground black pepper, ground allspice (I'm not quite sure if thats the same as the swedish word "kryddpeppar", but I think so). And yes, in Norway, and the swedish west coast, they usually sprinkle (?) bacon ower the fish!
Lut(e)fisk is low in fat and easy to digest. In Sweden we eat a lot of fatty food at Christmas so the lut(e)fisk is a nice change.
Hope this isn't too much off topic! ;-))
Boel
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From: William <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 21:34:54 -0500
Subject: Re: Atkins diet scare

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 16:43:55 -0700, Lynnet Bannion <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

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  then a little lutefisk, then hot cream sauce and top it off
> with lots of butter, salt and pepper.

By easy to make I meant tossing a codfish fillet in wood ashes, then
leaving it there for months. (?)

I read that in Norway it is served covered in bacon.

BTW I hate cream sauce. Especially on potatoes. Mother made me eat it.

William