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Updated: May 25, 2025
But Kjel, who was a very light sleeper, was up and after her in an instant, and peeped at her through the crack in the door. There he saw her cutting up the victuals and putting one tit-bit aside after the other, lefser and sweet-cakes and bacon and collared-beef, into the large chest which she had hidden behind the herring barrels.
They had no need to starve when they had all the fish of the sea right under their noses, said she. And then she handed him, as a specimen, one of his own lefser, which she had filled with butter and sirup herself, and let him taste it. And he tasted it, and ate and ate till the sirup ran down both corners of his mouth. Such good greasy lefser he had never tasted before.
The lefser were so hard, they said, that it was munch munch all day; there was only rancid fat on them, with scarcely a glimpse of bacon; and as for the cured shoulders of mutton, one had scarcely shaved off a thin slice when one scraped against the bare bone. Up into the store-room went the general dealer like a shot.
And at Yule-tide Toad baked and roasted, and cut things down so finely that her fellow-servants were almost driven to chew their wooden spoons and gnaw bones. But such fat calves, and such ribs of pork, and such lefser filled with both sirup and butter, and such mölje and splendid fare for the guests that came to his house at Christmas-time the general dealer had never seen before.
The cooks hired for the occasion rolled out the lefser, and baked and frizzled on the flat oven-pans. And they brought in herring kegs from the shop, and meal and meat, both cured and fresh, and weighed and measured, and laid in stores of provisions. But then it seemed to Toad as if she hadn't a moment's peace for prying into pots and pans.
But as for Toad, she smote her hands above her head, and said that it was as much as he, the general dealer, could manage, to meet the heavy expenses for fish-hooks and fish-baskets, and nets and lines, without having to provide his fishermen with salt herring and bacon, and fresh butter and lefser and ground coffee into the bargain.
Her mistress was going backwards and forwards continually, between store-room and pantry, after meal, or sugar, or butter, or sirup for the lefser. The store-room door was ajar for her all day long. So at last Toad grew downright wild. She was determined to put an end to all this racket. So she took it upon her to well smear the threshold of the store-room with green soap.
And so it was Toad who now superintended everything, and both dispensed the stores and made provision for the household. She drove all the hired cooks and pancake rollers out of the house they were only eating her master out of house and home, she said. The lefser were laid together without any sirup between them, and she gave out fat instead of butter.
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