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Meat from Faroe Islands

Garnatálggarnatálg

Garnatálg is a Faroese food made from the tallow around a sheep's left colon (garnmørur). The fat is formed into a large oval lump and air-dried, then sliced and melted in a pan to serve with ræstur fiskur, the Faroese wind-dried fermented fish. No study gives its drying time or microbes.

A short entry: the sources we found record only what is said here about Garnatálg itself.

Short entryMeat

Recipe

No fixed amounts recordedWhat goes in. No source gives amounts for this ferment.
sheep tallow around the left colon (garnmørur)
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What changes: Sheep gut fat is formed into a large oval lump

Step 1 of 3
Form the gut fat into a large oval lump
Time
Not documented
Temperature
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Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented
Flavour
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Texture
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Colour
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Microbes at work in this step

Not documented for this step.

Method

Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source

At a glance

Garnatálg is a Faroese food made from the tallow around a sheep's left colon (garnmørur). The fat is formed into a large oval lump and air-dried, then sliced and melted in a pan to serve with ræstur fiskur, the Faroese wind-dried fermented fish. No study gives its drying time or microbes.

What makes this one different

Garnatálg is an air-dried fat rather than a meat, like Himalayan chilu, and it is used as a sauce for ræstur fiskur. Sperðil, another Faroese tallow food, is salted and stuffed into intestine.

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History and sources

Every number is labelled with how it is known. How this atlas is made

  1. [s1] Svanberg I. 2015, Ræstur fiskur, air-dried fermented fish the Faroese way, Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 11:76paper