MAKING THE MEAT BALLS

The meatballs are rolled and placed on cookie sheets to bake in the commercial convention ovens.


Tell me again, how do you play patty-cake?

The meat balls are cooked.


Exactly how long do you think I can hold onto this hot pan?

THE PIECE’D’RISTANCE – THE LUTEFISK

Good Lutefisk starts with the fish cutters


They still have 20 fingers between the two of them and their combined experience is in excess of 100 years! Younger cutters follow in later shifts but these granddaddies get first pick and take first shift.

The Lutefisk cookers


They are the third generation of Lutefisk cookers at First Lutheran Church.

NO NORWEGIAN CAN GET THROUGH A MEAL WITHOUT COFFEE


The fellow on the right, his real expertise is cooking the potatoes which he has done for our dinner for 45 years – I know, he doesn’t look much older than 45. Don’t get in his way.

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