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- From: putko@tolsun.oulu.fi (Heikki Putkonen)
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- Subject: RECIPE: KALAKUKKO (Finnish fish-and-pork pie)
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- Date: 8 Jul 88 05:32:02 GMT
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE MEAT-PIE-4 M "4 Jul 88" 1988
- .RZ "KALAKUKKO" "Rye bread pie with fish and pork filling"
- This is an ancient national food prepared and eaten in Savo (eastern
- Finland).
- .IH "Serves 4\-6"
- .SH FILLING
- .IG "2 lb" "small fish" "1 kg"
- .IG "1\(12 lb" "pork," "0.75 kg"
- sliced into strips like bacon, but about
- .AB "\(14 to \(12 inch" "0.5 to 1 cm"
- thick.
- .IG "3 Tbsp" "salt" "50 g"
- (omit salt if pork is already salted)
- .IG "" "allspice"
- (optional. Traditionalists omit this)
- .SH DOUGH
- .IG "2\(12 cups" "water" "600 ml"
- .IG "3\(14 cups" "rye flour" "300 g"
- .AB "(sifted)" "(800 ml)"
- .IG "1\(34 cups" "wheat flour" "200 g"
- .AB "(sifted)" "(400 ml)"
- .IG "4 tsp" "salt" "20 g"
- .IG "\(12 oz" "yeast" "10 g"
- (2 standard packages)
- .PH
- .SK 1
- Clean the fish, removing fins, large scales, and entrails. You may leave the
- heads if you dare to eat them.
- .SK 2
- Mix the flours, and salt. Add the yeast to the water.
- .SK 3
- When the yeast is fully dissolved, make a thick dough by pouring
- flour mixture into water and blending well.
- The ratio of flour to water depends on the nature of the flours. This ratio
- of 1:2 by volume works well in Finland with Finnish flours. Where flours
- contain more gluten you should use slightly less water.
- .SK 4
- Set aside
- .AB "4 Tbsp" "5 cl"
- of dough to be used later.
- Roll out the remaining dough into a circular shape
- .AB "\(34 inch" "2 cm"
- thick.
- .SK 5
- Assemble the meats into the dough: cover the inner half of the dough circle
- with half of the pork (the pork should cover a circle whose diameter is half
- the diameter of the rolled dough).
- Then put all of the fish over top of the pork, and add allspice and extra
- salt if you are using them. Finish with the second half of the pork.
- .SK 6
- Preheat oven to
- .TE 500 250 .
- Lift the edges of the dough all around the filling and glue together
- with a little water so that you have the filling surrounded from all directions
- with
- .AB "\(34-inch-thick" "2-cm-thick"
- dough. Put upside down (the seam downwards) on a baking sheet
- and let it rise about half an hour at room temperature.
- .SK 7
- Put the kalakukko in a
- .TE 500 250
- oven for long enough to brown the dough, which will seal it against moisture.
- Then lower the temperature to about
- .TE 250 125
- and let it bake for 4 to 7 hours depending on the
- size of the fish (bigger fish need more cooking time).
- You can brush some melted butter over the top of the dough just after
- lowering the temperature; this will give it a prettier appearance.
- If it starts to leak while baking, fill holes with the dough which was
- set aside.
- .SK 8
- Serve hot or cold.
- .NX
- Kalakukko was used as travelers food because it stays edible very long
- when unopened. Also in medieval times salt was the only way to preserve
- meat and it was expensive, so with this way you could use all the salt
- in salt pork. The word kala-kukko means fish-cock (the bird).
- .PP
- You can use any small fish (shorter than
- .AB "8 inches)." "20 cm)."
- Small scales and spikes don't matter because they soften during the
- prolonged cooking. Make sure you use unsmoked pork.
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- moderate (some skill with dough is required).
- .I Time:
- 45 minutes preparation, 30 minutes attended baking, 4\-7 hours unattended
- baking.
- .I Precision:
- Careful measurement not necessary, but the consistency of the dough (which
- will depend on the nature of your flours) is important. If the dough is
- either too soft or too hard, the kalakukko will leak.
- .WR
- Heikki Putkonen
- University of Oulu, Finland
- putko@tolsun.oulu.fi
-