Sorry Ray, but I just have to finnish this off....
So we DO have some culinary chefs among our Italian friends. However I must say that feeding the stuff to your dog gives you no ++ in the kitchen Kyrre...
It is quite correct that the dish made is called "lutfisk" in Swedish, and you have to put the dried fish in water with soda in it. This gives the fish a rather swollen, slimy consistency, which I guess is rather repelling for those who have not seen the light!!! Eaten with white sause and lots of mustard it really is a delicacy and if anyone ever pass by Gothenburg, be my guest! Just drop me a line... I do, however, make a wonderful pasta as well
To get a bit more in line, I somehow cannot see Count Caproni stand on the marketsquare chopping up dried cod and sell it to the people, so how did such a trade in those days work? Did the Italian Government step in as a go-between here, or did Caproni have to find a buyer himself of the stuff??
Cheers
Stig