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Leverpostej (Danish

Danish language

Danish is one of the North Germanic languages , a sub-group of the Germanic languages branch of the Indo-European languages. It is spoken by around 6 million people, mainly in Denmark; the language is also used by the 50,000 Danes in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany where it holds the status of minority language....
, pronounced leh-wer-po-stei), lifrarkæfa (Icelandic

Icelandic language

Icelandic is a North Germanic languages, the language of Iceland. Its closest relative is Faroese language and Norwegian dialects such as Telemark dialect and Sognam?l....
), leverpostei (Norwegian

Norwegian language

Norwegian is a North Germanic languages language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is an official language. It is also spoken as a second language among Norwegian-Americans in the United States of America, especially in the central northern states....
), leverpastej (Swedish

Swedish language

Swedish is a North Germanic languages language, spoken by around 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along the coast and on the ?land islands....
) or leverpastei (Dutch

Dutch language

Dutch is a West Germanic languages spoken by over 22 million people as a first language, and about 5 million people as a second language."1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." Outside the European Union the number of second language speakers of Dutch is very small. Most native...
) is a "pâté

Pâté

P?t? is a mixture of minced meat and fat in the form of spreadable paste, generally made from a finely ground or chunky mixture of meats and liver, and often with additional fat, vegetables, herbs, spices or wine....
" made of pork

Pork

Pork is the culinary name for meat from the domestic pig . The word, pork, is often meant to denote specifically the fresh meat of the pig, but it can be used as an all-inclusive term, to include cured, smoked, or processed meats It is one of the most-commonly consumed meats worldwide, with evidence of pig animal husbandry dating back...
liver

Liver

The liver is a vital organ present in vertebrates and some other animals; it has a wide range of functions, a few of which are detoxification, protein synthesis, and production of biochemicals necessary for digestion....
, which is a popular spread

Spread (food)

A spread is a food that is spread with a knife onto bread, Cracker , or other bread products. Spreads are added to bread products to provide flavor and texture, and are an integral part of the dish, i.e., they should be distinguished from condiments, which are optional additions....
in northern Europe. Leverpostej is very similar to the German Braunschweiger

Braunschweiger

Braunschweiger is a type of liverwurst which is nearly always smoked.Braunschweiger has a very high amount of Vitamin A, iron and proteins. The meat has a very soft, spread-like texture and a distinctive spicy liver-based flavor, very similar to the Nordic Leverpostej....
.

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Leverpostej (Danish

Danish language

Icelandic language

Norwegian language

Swedish language

Dutch language

Pâté

Pork

Liver

Spread (food)

Braunschweiger

Danish leverpostej

In Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
the liver is formed into a paste to which herbs, salt, pepper and other desired seasoning are added. It is then put into a loaf pan and baked in an oven.

The leverpostej is sliced or spread on Danish dark rye bread (rugbrød
Rugbrød

[Image:2006-02-05_13-11_100_1202.JPG|thumb|250px|Baguette and rugbr?d topped with leverpostej Image:Rugbr?d.JPGRugbr?d is the most commonly used bread in Denmark....
) and eaten as an open faced sandwich

Open sandwich

An open sandwich, also known as an open face sandwich, open faced sandwich or tartine, consists of one single slice of bread with one or more food items on top of it....
. It might also be topped with any of a variety of pickled

Pickling

Pickling, also known as brining or corning, is the process of preserving food by Anaerobic organism fermentation in brine , to produce lactic acid bacteria, or marination and storing it in an acid solution, usually vinegar ....
items, such as beets, onions, or cucumbers. It is also traditional to place a slice of the saltkød on top of the leverpostejmad.

A more extravagant variation is the prepared Danish open face sandwich (smørrebrød) called Dyrlægens natmad (lit. "Veterinarian's midnight snack")— on a piece of dark rye bread, a layer of leverpostej is topped with a slice of corned beef (salt kød) and a slice of meat aspic

ASPIC

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(sky). This is all decorated with raw onion

Onion

Onion is a term used for many plants in the genus Allium. They are known by the common name "onion" but, used without qualifiers, it usually refers to Allium cepa....
rings and cress

Cress

Cress may refer to:Plants* Garden cress, a leafy vegetable* Land cress, a biennial herb* Peppercress, a mustard* Rock cress, a brassicale...
.

Leverpostej is also served warm on rye bread, or sometimes on warm baguette

Baguette

A baguette is a specific shape of bread, commonly made from basic lean dough, a simple guideline set down by France law, distinguishable by its length, very crisp crust, and slits cut into it to enable proper expansion of gasses and thus formation of the crumb, the white part of bread....
s called Franskbrød. Traditional toppings include bacon

Bacon

Bacon is a cut of meat taken from the sides, belly, or back of a pig, then Curing , Smoking , or both. Meat from other animals, such as beef, Lamb and mutton, chicken, goat, or turkey , may also be cut, cured, or otherwise prepared to resemble bacon....
slices and sautéed

Sautéing

Saut?ing is a method of cooking food that uses a small amount of fat in a shallow cookware and bakeware over relatively high heat. Unlike searing, saut?s are often finished with a sauce made from the pan's residual fond....
mushroom

Mushroom

A mushroom is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source. The standard for the name "mushroom" is the cultivated white button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus, hence the word mushroom is most often applied to those fungi that have a stem , a cap , and gills on the unde...
s.

Leverpostej was introduced to Denmark in 1847 by a Frenchman in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban area with a population of 1,153,615 . Copenhagen is situated on the Islands of Zealand and Amager....
. At that time it was considered a luxury item, and was expensive. Today it is a common and reasonably priced food item. Two surveys in 1992 showed that Danes rank leverpostej as their favorite sandwich cold cut.

Stryhn's, started in 1945 on Amager

Amager

Amager is a Denmark island in the ?resund. The Danish capital, Copenhagen, is partly situated on Amager, which is connected to Zealand by several bridges....
island, south of Copenhagen, is one of Denmark's major marketers of leverpostej. Their Grovhakket (lit. "Coarse mince") brand has been the most purchased leverpostej in Denmark during the past few decades.