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Koldskål

Name: Koldskål
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Danish
Ingredients: 1 L Buttermilk, very cold; 3 Egg yolks; 80 g Caster sugar; 1 Vanilla pod, seeds scraped; 1 Lemon, juice and zest; 200 g Plain yoghurt; 150 g Kammerjunker or other small dry biscuits; 200 g Strawberries, sliced

Buttermilk whisked with egg yolks, sugar, vanilla and lemon, served ice cold with little dry biscuits floating in it — Denmark's answer to a hot day, eaten with a spoon.

Quelle

Rezept von Danish summer tables · 🏺 Traditionell · Six weeks of light, cold buttermilk in bowls, berries cooked down with nothing added, and everything eaten outside because the year gives you so little of it.

Danish · summer bowl — An ownerless traditional dish, so no cook is credited. `Koldskål` redirects to `Buttermilk_koldskål`, which is the dish's own article; it confirms the buttermilk base, the egg-yolk-and-sugar mixture, the vanilla and lemon and that it is eaten as both a drink and a dessert. Quantities and the raw-egg safety note are this book's own.

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Zubereitung im Video · 3 Videos

cooking with villads Mitzie Mee Skandibaking

⏱ 20 Min.🍽 4 Portionen🔥 260 kcal🇩🇰 Dänemark

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Zubereitung

Whisk the egg yolks with the sugar and vanilla seeds for 3 minutes until pale and thick.
Whisk in the lemon zest and juice.
Add the yoghurt, then pour in the cold buttermilk in a thin stream while whisking.
💡 Thin stream, constant whisking. Poured in all at once the yolks seize into little threads and it never comes smooth.
Taste. It should be sharp first and sweet second — add lemon rather than sugar if it needs waking up.
Chill at least 2 hours. It has to be genuinely cold, not merely cool.
Serve in bowls with the biscuits scattered on top and strawberries alongside. Eat before the biscuits go soft.

💡 Tipps

Kammerjunker are small twice-baked biscuits made for exactly this. Any hard plain biscuit stands in, but soft ones dissolve.
Danish supermarkets sell it by the litre from May, and sales are a genuine indicator that summer has started.
Some households add a spoon of crème fraîche for body. It is a legitimate variation, not a shortcut.