Julekake (1938)

Beverly Flanigan flanigan at OHIO.EDU
Tue May 6 03:35:45 UTC 2003


Oh, good Lord, it goes much further back than that--my immigrant
grandmother made it, voiceless or voiced "julekage."

At 11:08 PM 5/5/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>    DARE has 1940 for "julekake" (Norwegian Christmas bread).  The CHICAGO
> TRIBUNE will probably do better.  Once again, the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
> MONITOR comes through.
>
>
>   Norwegians on Seven Seas Praise Grandmother Bredvik; Special to The
> Christian Science Monitor; Christian Science Monitor (1908-Current file),
> Boston, Mass.; Dec 23, 1938; pg. 3, 1 pgs
>("The women from all our church groups...make the gifts, and the Julekake
>(Christmas cake the kind traditional in Norway) and then we have wondeful
>parties...")



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