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Rawr! If me and my family weren't still Swedes and had this big pond (the Atlantic) blocking our way, we'd challenge you to a julkorv duel!

I'm up to the challenge, anguish! Bring it on!

btw, this recipe came across the pond more than a hundred years ago, and I would LOVE to know what you put in your julkorv, and if julkorv is the only sausage you make with potatoes in it.

As the grandchild of long ago immigrants, this is the only korv I know, so I was surprised to find out that there are bunches of other kinds of korv back in the homeland.

Do you use onions? Allspice? A mixture of pork and beef, heavy on the pork?

Inquiring Swedish minds want to know. ;*)

Unfortunately I'm the kind of man that can fail at boiling water, so obviously I missed out on the cooking gene. However, since I often sit in the kitchen with my julöl (christmas beer) cheering my father and aunt on, I think I know a little of what goes into the julkorv.

As far as I know it's pretty much 50% pork, 25% beef and 25% potatoes. I think we've added more beef since my grandma's time though. As they didn't have beef cattle - only a couple of cows for milk, cream and cheese - beef was kind of a luxury. And yeah, that's the only type of korv we make with potatoes as an ingredient. Other than the meat and potatoes we use the stock we get after making our julskinka (christmas ham). Milk and cream also goes into the mix, though I'm not sure how much. For seasoning I only know that they use ginger and allspice, but I'm sure there's more than that. No onions anywhere.

Sorry if that wasn't too informative - I can design a processor from scratch, but cooking is rocket science to me :(