Name: Palt

Ingredients:

• 5 pounds russet potatoes
• 3 cups flour
• 1/4 cup chopped pork chops, uncooked
• Salt and pepper

Instructions:

• Grate the potatoes.
• Take 3 big double handfuls, and squeeze out the liquid.
• Add flour, and (in Dagmar’s words) mix the daylights out of it.
• Salt and pepper the chopped pork chops.
• Take 1/2 potato mix and put meat in the centre.
• Roll each into a ball and then into dry flour.
• Place in a big pot of salted boiling water and simmer 2 hrs.

Comments: A Swedish potato dumpling recipe. Gail MacKay wrote, “We ate this with butter, but I have had it with sour cream, and I think we all agree that sliced and fried is the best.”

Source: April 8, 2020, email from Gail MacKay, who got it from her aunt, Dagmar Leonard, originally from Anna (Holm) Carlson

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