[CH] Spicy Sausage

chilehead@tough-love.com
Sat, 19 May 2007 22:15:14 -0400

The sausage which I've actually stuffed in casings is korv, a bland Swedish 
sausage which along with beef and pork, often contains potatoes or barley. 
It is stuffed in hog casings and ends up about 1 inch diameter and 16" long. 
It's big at Christmas time, but was available year round in my half Swedish 
half Italian hometown when I was growing up. 

I once took the hydrofoil from Copenhagen to Malmo Sweden just to say that 
I'd visited the auld sod and there was a korv stand at the pier. Turns out 
that korv is generic swedish for any sausage and I ended up with a hot dog. 
They call them polsers in Denmark and served them with a roll, but not on a 
bun. If you google korv, there are some recipes. I believe they've replaced 
the ferrys with a very strange looking bridge tunnel combination now. Too 
bad, the duty-free aquavit was ice cold and great! 

Dave Anderson
TLCC