Ask any
Swedish what he or she will eat on Midsummer Eve (this year on June 21). 85%
will respond that they eat soused herring (matjessill) with new
potatoes, sour cream and chives.
This is one
of the most traditional meal dishes in the Swedish culture.
It is at
the same time also one of the most popular summer dishes. Thus, not only on
Midsummer Eve.
Today, my
wife and I had this for lunch.
Cooked
home-grown potatoes.
Chives from
our own garden - cut into small pieces.
Sour cream
(gräddfil). And of course:
soused herring. This we have bought in cans at the grocery store and it comes
from the village and island Klädesholmen
on the Swedish west coast.
A piece of
tomato does not do the meal worse.
To this you
should be drinking beer and schnapps. But I would drive just after the meal so
I drank water from the tap.
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