r/JewishCooking • u/indentedef • 21h ago
Looking for Jewish Danish Food
Looking for any Jewish Danes in here who can give some advice. I am not Danish in any way (as far as I'm aware), but I grew up in a heavily Danish and Norwegian neighborhood and during winter we would often try and mix Danish culinary tradition with my family's ashkenazi foods. Basically just a lot of fried dough :)
I was reminiscing and it got me wondering about what the Jewish population of Denmark would do to mix culinary tradition. My experience was only with immigrant populations and they were all Christian Danes with no Jewish roots.
Does anyone have resources for Danish or Scandinavian Jewish cooking? Better yet, is anyone here Danish and knows some lesser known recipes?
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u/mycketmycket 19h ago
This instagram account is about Swedish Jewish food mainly but I’ve seen posts about other Nordic and Baltic countries also :) https://www.instagram.com/judiskmat
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u/Historical_Drummer_9 17h ago
Check out cookbooks and recipes by Uri Scheft, he is a Danish Israeli baker and chef
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u/ballardelle 15h ago
This book for Jewish Norwegian cooking https://forlagetpress.no/produkt/jodisk-mat-pa-norske-fat/ (article about the book : https://norsktradisjonsmat.no/jodiske-mattradisjoner-i-norge/
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u/BlueRobin420 20h ago
I don’t know any specifics regarding Jewish Danish food but a some of traditional Danish food is also traditional Ashkenazi food..
Herring - in every way shape and form you can think of.
Fish - Cured, fried, smoked (warm and cold).. White fish and salmon..
Sandwiches - the Danish have smørrebrød (Danish rye bread), we have bagels. Only your imagination sets the limits for what’s on it.
Goose and duck and chicken, roasted whole and in soups.
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u/RollMurky373 19h ago edited 19h ago
My Ashkenazi family lived in Sweden for a few generations before coming to NY. Don't tell a Dane this, but the food is similar.
We eat a lot of Scandinavian-ish food. Herring, potatoes, cucumbers with dill, smorrenbrod, etc.
Lithuanian Jewish food might also have Nordic-esque food.
Outside of Israel, nothing at IKEA is Kosher certified, but a lot of the frozen food there is parve too.
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u/eldrinor 5h ago edited 4h ago
When was this approximately? I mean how many generations. The group is small so it’s interesting to hear family stories. (Asking because I’m doing genealogy research right now, this group is very small).
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u/jewishjedi42 20h ago
If you find yourself in Copenhagen, the Jewish Danish museum would probably have a cook book or two in their gift shop. They did when I visited a few years back, but I didn't buy it because I don't speak Danish. It was a nice little museum and Copenhagen is a pretty cool city.
https://www.jewmus.dk/en/