Mistur, as The Mist, Appends Christmas Apples by Katrín Guðjónsdóttir

Summary: Mistur, as The Mist, last thriller in the Hidden Iceland trilogy by Ragnar Jónasson, appends Christmas Apples by Katrín Guðjónsdóttir, the author’s mother.

The Icelandic apple cake, eplakaka, perhaps most apes the Danish and the Norwegian equivalents, respectively as eplekake and æblekage, of all Nordic-configured apple cakes. It perhaps archives culinary practices from first the Norwegian (1262?-1380) rule and then the Danish (1262-1944) rule; Oct. 26, 2015, image of eplakaka: Bedrevidene, CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons

Mistur, as The Mist, last thriller in the Hidden Iceland trilogy about Reykjavík Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir by attorney and writer Ragnar Jónasson, appends Christmas Apples by Katrín Guðjónsdóttir, the author’s mother.

Guðjónsdóttir brings to husband Jónas Ragnarsson, son Ragnar Jónasson, daughter-in-law María Margrét Jóhannsdóttir and granddaughters Kira and Natalía the Christmas beauty of a 10-year-old in 1960. She cherishes the Christmas season from the first Advent Sunday through Jan. 6, 1960, for Christmas apples that her father carefully collects into one open-topped carton. Her father always deposits the apple-filled box at the top of a staircase inside the family dwelling in Reykjavík’s Háagerði (“high enclosed field, fence, hedge”) division.

Katrín Guðjónsdóttir (Romanized Katrin [“both, faraway, 100, pure”?] Gudjonsdottir [“God is gracious’ daughter”]) never expects to eat any apples before she enjoys her Christmas Eve-gifted book.

Guðjónsdóttir, like her brothers and her sisters, finds it sufficient to fill her nostrils with the fine scent of flavorful apples fit freshly into one box.

Mother and son, Guðjónsdóttir in her reminiscence and Jónasson in his thriller, give no guidance about getting Christmas apples prepared and served apart fresh and sliced. Magnus Nilsson (“great victory people’s son”) in The Nordic Cookbook and Sæmundur Guðmundsson (“sea protector god protector’s son”) through the Fruit Forum handle cuisine and cultivation. The cookbook author identifies apple cake as æblekage in Denmark, äppelkaka in Sweden and eplakaka in Iceland even as he indicates including Australian-cultivared Granny Smith apples.

Apples sliced by Elín Reyndal in Mistur, as The Mist by Ragnar Jónasson, join Christmas apples by Katrín Guðjónsdóttir in the English translation by Quentin Bates.

Perhaps Christmas apples kindle Icelandic apple cake, eplakaka, with its baking powder; breadcrumbs; butter; eggs; ground cinnamon; milk; peeled, cored, wedged apples; sugar; and wheat flour.

Perhaps Christmas apples liven Icelandic-style Norwegian layer cake (tilslørte bondepiker); Danish barley porridge (vandgrød), compote (æblekompost), curry cream sauce (karrysovs), soup (æblesuppe) and trifle (gammeldags æblekage). They make roast duck or goose with apples and prunes (stegt and med svesker og æbler) and salted pork belly with browned apples and onions (æbleflæsk). Perhaps they nestle into other Nordic niches with apple pie (skånsk äppelkaka) from Sweden and poached apples stuffed with jam (súreplasúlta) from the nearby Faroe Islands.

Perhaps Elín Reyndal and the father of Katrín Guðjónsdóttir respectively obtained sliced apples in Mistur, as The Mist, and Christmas apples from North America and Scandinavia.

Sæmundur Guðmundsson, according to the article Icelandic Apples by James Crowden for Fruit Forum, planted Haugman and Savstaholm Norwegian varieties and Carol and Mantet Canadian varieties.

Hella (“paving stone”) and Merkihvoli (“banner freedom”) villages southeast of Hekla (“crochet”) and Búrfell (“pantry mountain”) mountains and northeast of coastal eastern Iceland quarter Guðmundsson apples. Sandy clay roots Guðmundsson apple trees between north-facing 30-meter- (98.3-foot-) long shelter fences and south-facing house walls 100 kilometers (62.14 miles) east of Reykjavík (“smoky bay”). It seeks 80 to 90 windless days, 141-day growing seasons and annual average April-September temperatures of 10 degrees Celsius (50 degrees Fahrenheit) and 1,229-millimeter (48.39-inch) rainfall.

Troves 65 to 70 kilometers (40.39 to 43.49 miles) inland perhaps tender Katrín Guðjónsdóttir Christmas apples and Elín Reyndal sliced apples in Mistur, as The Mist.

The Icelandic dessert eplakaka ("apple cake") perhaps least apes the Swedish equivalent, äppelkaka; image of Swedish äppelkaka: Marsve, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

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The Icelandic apple cake, eplakaka, perhaps most apes the Danish and the Norwegian equivalents, respectively as eplekake and æblekage, of all Nordic-configured apple cakes. It perhaps archives culinary practices from first the Norwegian (1262?-1380) rule and then the Danish (1262-1944) rule; Oct. 26, 2015, image of eplakaka: Bedrevidene, CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Æblekage.png

The Icelandic dessert eplakaka ("apple cake") perhaps least apes the Swedish equivalent, äppelkaka; image of Swedish äppelkaka: Marsve, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Appelkaka.jpg

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