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turn sour; but the same method is not 

 practised for the sour Stroemming. This 

 last is in its greatest perfection about St. 

 James's day (July 2oth). 



These people have three meals a day in 

 summer, besides breakfast, and the sour 

 Strcemming always makes a part of their 

 dinner, as well as of the preceding refresh- 

 ment. The fish, after being repeatedly 

 squeezed, is laid between two slices of 

 bread, and so eaten. After it they take 

 some sour preparation of milk, without 

 cream. Sometimes indeed they eat a bit 

 of cheese, or bread and butter ; but they 

 never eat meat after the sour Strcemming. 

 Their vegetable food consists of cabbage, 

 pease, or turnips, the first being generally 

 eaten on Sundays. Pease are eaten once 

 a week, except when the cabbage is defi- 

 cient, and then they supply its place. 

 Turnips and salt Stroemming are generally 

 eaten in a morning, in the following man- 

 ner. When the turnips are boiled nearly 

 enough, the fish is put to them, but not 



