Icelandic Kinmount 150
Icelandic Pylsur (Hot Dogs)
6 long white, fluffy hot dog buns
6 pylsur sausages
4 tablespoons Icelandic hot dog mustard
4 tablespoons ketchup
4 tablespoons Icelandic remoulade – recipe below if you aren’t buying it premade
6 tablespoons crispy deep-fried onion slivers
6 tablespoons diced shallots
1 1/2 cups water mixed with 1 1/2 cups of beer (Icelandic Viking or Gull are classic Icelandic beers, but any lager will do)
Remoulade:
3/4 cup neutral tasting oil
1 egg yolk
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1 tablespoon white wine vinegar
2 teaspoons chopped gherkin
2 teaspoons chopped capers
1 tablespoon chopped chervil
INSTRUCTIONS
Braise the pylsur in the beer water just until they are hot.
Split the buns down the middle and lightly toast them, although steaming is the traditional way that TFD prefers.
Add one sausage and the raw onions to each bun.
Add a stripe of mustard, remoulade and ketchup down each sausage.
Top with the crispy fried onions. Enjoy the world’s best hot dog!!!
Skúffukaka
Servings: 24
Ingredients:
For the Cake:
280 grams sugar
125 grams butter- room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 eggs – room temperature
200 grams flour
1 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
50 grams natural unsweetened cocoa
1 teaspoon cinnamon
100 ml milk
For the Frosting:
130 grams salted butter, room temperature
1 egg
250 grams confectioner’s sugar
1 Tablespoon unsweetened cocoa
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
100 grams dark chocolate, melted
2 Tablespoons cream
1 -2 Tablespoon strong coffee – cooled
coconut flakes to sprinkle over the cake
Directions:
For the Cake;
Preheat the oven to 355° F (180°C).
Butter and flour one 9X9″ baking tray.
In a bowl sift together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and cocoa. Set aside.
In the bowl of a stand mixer, cream the butter and sugar together for 1 -2 minutes. Add the eggs,
mixing well after the addition of each egg. Add the vanilla extract. Mix on medium high-speed for 6
-7 minutes until light and fluffy.
Add the dry mixture to the butter & sugar. Mix until just combined.
Add the milk and mix until just combined.
Scrape the batter into the prepared baking tray and spread evenly. Bake for 30 – 40 minutes or until
a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
Set on a wire rack to cool before frosting.
For the Frosting:
In the bowl of a stand mixer, mix the butter and egg together until combined. With the mixer on
low-speed, add the confectioners sugar slowly, 1/4 cup at a time, mixing well after each addition.
Add the cocoa and vanilla. Add the melted and cooled chocolate and continue mixing.
Mix in the cream and 1 – 2 Tablespoons of the cooled coffee to taste. Continue mixing until the
frosting is smooth. If the icing is not the correct consistency for frosting the cake you can either add
a bit more confectioner’s sugar or refrigerate for a short time to allow it to set.
Spread frosting over the cooled cake. This recipe makes a good amount of frosting, so you may not
use all of it on the cake. Add as thick a layer of frosting as you prefer. Sprinkle with coconut flakes.
Enjoy!
Don Gislason’s book about the Kinmount Settlement Experiment is available for purchase or download from the Icelandic Canadian Club of Toronto: icct.info/shop
For more reading please use this link….https://maryboro.ca/story/the-icelanders-at-kinmount/
For the list of Passengers who came to Kinmount please use this link….https://novascotiaicelanders.ca/settlers.cfm?id=2
History Rediscovered
Our Icelandic-Kinmount-Canadian’Saga’ Timeline
1874 Settlers Arrive in Kinmount from Iceland under a Canadian Government immigration Scheme.
1875 Left Kinmount for ‘New Iceland’ aka Gimli Manitoba
1900-1960 Numerous local newspaper articles written about the 1874 Icelandic Settlement
1921 Watson Kirkconnell wrote about the Icelanders who came to Ontario to work on the Victoria Railway in his book ‘The History of Victoria County’
1987 Guy Scott writes about the Icelanders for his book ‘The History of Kinmount’
1998 The Icelandic Canadian Club of Toronto joins Kinmount Fair festivities, parade and picnic at the fairgrounds.
1999 Don Gislason writes his book ‘The Icelanders of Kinmount An Experiment in Settlement’
2000 Sculpture completed by Gudrun Sigursteinsdottir Girgis.
2005 Path to Gimli by Declan O’Driscoll makes it’s debut
2005 Icefest takes place in Kinmount to celebrate the 130th anniversary of the Immigration. The Icelandic Memorial statue is unveiled and the sagas are delivered.
2007 Ancestors in the Attic, a Canadian genealogical television show airs ‘Icelandic Horsemen’ Season 2, Episode 13 October 13, 2007.
Up to 2024 Annual commemorative picnics held at Kinmount on a Saturday around June 15
