Hey Now! That is what I call a fire! Recently, at a meeting of the very small sportsman's club I belong to, we had a traditional Door County (Wisconsin) fish boil. What this is, is basically a simple proceedure of boiling onions for 10 minutes, adding red potatoes for 10 minutes, then adding Lake Michigan White Fish for another 10 minutes and at the end of the 30 minute cooking time, throwing on about 12 oz of kerosene or diesel fuel (as seem in the first photo) onto the fire which super heats the fire and the water, causing a great fireball and the water to boil over. This boiling over is essential as whitefish is very fatty, and the boiling over of the water removes all the nasty fat residue and also extinguishes the huge fire you now have under your kettle! ( I have more photos of the fire and boil over and will try to post them.) Once you can get to the kettle, you can lift out the baskets that hold the fish, onions, and red potatoes and set them out on the table and it is a feeding frenzy! It tastes delicious! Also it is traditionally served with cherry pie. I am not sure about the history of this cooking recipe, but most of the people in the Wisconsin area are Northern European, either Norwegian, Swedish, or North German and I suspect that this tradition comes from the early settlers to the are of Door County, Wisconsin. I could be totally wrong, but either way, it is alot of fun and tastes great!
You can find all kinds of similar recipes by googling Door County Fish Boil, but few mention the super heating process at the end.
Enjoy!
later!
1 comment:
You can take the boy out of the country...
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