Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A traditional Scandinavian dish made from stockfish that has been soaked in a lye solution for several days before cooking, becoming soft and gelatinous.

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  • noun A traditional Nordic dish made from stockfish and soda lye.

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  • noun dried cod soaked in a lye solution before boiling to give it a gelatinous consistency

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Norwegian : lut, lye (from Swedish, from Old Norse laudhr, soap, foam; see leu(ə)- in Indo-European roots) + fisk, fish (from Old Norse fiskr).]

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  • Also lutfisk.

    October 16, 2008

  • Swedes drop the "e." Unfortunately, it doesn't improve the taste...

    October 17, 2008