Talk:Æbleskiver

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Apple filling now rare

I think it is extremely rare that æbleskiver is cooked with slices of apples or applejuice - only time I have got that, was an experiment in my family. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.61.133.236 (talk • contribs)

I agree, I think this tradition is pretty dead. I have never seen it either. However, Frøken Jensens Kogebog (a Danish cook book from around 1900) noted that it is a possibility. Source: the Danish Wikipedia. Valentinian ^{(talk) / (contribs)} 08:18, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

IRMA sold pre-made frozen æbleskiver with apple-filling last Christmas. So it is not completely dead, but expensive and rare. Carewolf (talk) 12:15, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

The 1837 cook book "Kogebog for smaa Huusholdninger" gives 2 recipes for æbleskiver (page 242): one that was considered traditional at the time where the æbleskiver were literally filled with apple slices cooked in wine, the other recipe had no filling. Nowadays nobody includes the apple filling, but almost all modern recipes include grated lemon rind or cardamom (unlike the recipe quoted here)Dkviking 07:39, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

The recipe that is on this page is identical to one that is credited to Betty Crocker on this webpage: Aebleskive pans and mix at the Wayback Machine (archived 16 July 2006) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.90.117.69 (talk) 21 February 2007 (UTC)

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IPA requested

Since many people do not know Danish language, IPA would be great help for figuring out how to pronounce the first letter in the term.--Caspian blue 15:18, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Aeblskiver for breakfast?

In the article it was noted that Danes don't eat aebleskivers for breakfast anymore. Now I can't answer for Danes in general, be it Denmark or elsewhere, but my family has a tradition of having them for breakfast on holidays, and get togethers. I myself will have them on a semi regular basis. I'm using a variation of the waffle recipe in the Betty Croker cook book. My copy doesn't actually have a recipe for Aebleskivers. I'm using a Griswold cast iron pan I picked up in an antique shop. You can get them quit cheep if you look in communities where they don't know what it's for.

I recommend the style designed for gas stove use, as the drop down sides make for a more efficient use of heat. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kittyrinn (talk • contribs) 23:07, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

I think the Danish-American tradition is definitely to eat aebleskiver for breakfast. The tradition has definitely changed since coming across from Denmark. Case in point, Griswold pans were made in Erie, PA. There is definitely a long enough history of aebleskiver in America that we have developed our own traditions. Chad.gillard (talk) 20:51, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Aebleskiver cooking instructional video

I have created a short instructional video describing the cooking process to make round aebleskiver. I mistakenly included a link to the video in the External Links section, which I have learned (the hard way) was not appropriate. It sounds like Wiki guidelines require that links like this should be included in the body of the article, which I hesitated from doing in the first place since the video is branded, and I am using my own aebleskiver mix in the video. I created my own video because I wasn't happy with other videos available online, and feel that the instructional content of the video is valuable to people trying to learn about aebleskiver. What is the appropriate course of action? I don't want to be accused of spamming the page when I'm simply trying to improve content. Perhaps I need a different video format? Do I need to de-brand it? I also feel that the other External link to the history of aebleskiver should be removed, and the content should be added to page. It's fantastic content, but sadly isn't following Wiki guidelines either. Chad.gillard (talk) 20:51, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

The list of æbleskiver events

I think the list of æbleskiver events in North America has gotten out of hand. Perhaps originally it was envisioned to list just a very few events that are devoted to æbleskiver, but instead it's being used as a catchall for every Danish event where one imagines they may be found on the buffet table. This amounts to WP:TRIVIA. Imagine if Spaghetti and Pancake listed every spaghetti dinner and pancake supper fundraiser or social event held in the United States.

I propose trimming the list to the couple that are called "Æbleskiver Days", events where they are the focus and that amount to more than a breakfast or a dinner. Your thoughts? —Largo Plazo (talk) 23:01, 09 January 2015 (UTC)

I agree, mostly. We might also want to to add some of the list to Danish American, perhaps as a separate list of Danish American cultural events. BTW, please sign your posts on talk pages.--Hjal (talk) 02:20, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

I was just about to take care of this today, following another editor's addition of one event, but User:McGeddon got their ahead of me. I can't imagine it's controversial (famous last words, right?). —Largo Plazo (talk) 22:09, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

Didn't realise there was a talk page thread, I just noticed the list for the first time when someone added another event to it today and it struck me as redundant. A source that gives some context for "Æbleskiver Days" and confirms that the food is more prominent or popular than any other at Danish celebrations outside of Denmark (if this is even the case) would be useful. --McGeddon (talk) 22:30, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

Precisely. I had figured that if any of them were significant, it might be the one at the Danish-Canadian Museum, but I haven't looked into it. —Largo Plazo (talk) 22:31, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

Pronunciation

The given pronunciation does not seem to conform entirely with what would be expected given the information provided by the article on Danish orthography. ZFT (talk) 22:15, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

Can you be more specific about where it differs from what you expected? —Largo Plazo (talk) 00:11, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

According to Den Danske Ordbog, the broader type of transcription that we use on Help:IPA for Danish is, more or less, [ˈɛːb̥ləˌsɡ̊iːʊ̯ɐ]. A very narrow transcription that represents the actual pronunciation is [ˈeːpləˌskiːʊ̯ɒ̽] (but hardly anybody transcribes it as such). There's also the issue of stød - I'm not sure whether the [ˌsɡ̊iːʊ̯] syllable has stød on the long vowel ([ˌsɡ̊iːˀʊ̯]) or not ([ˌsɡ̊iːʊ̯]). If it does, feel free to add it to the transcription. Peter238 (talk) 22:51, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

Assessment comment

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Letter 'L' - Inconsistencies Spelling Aebleskiver On Wikipedia, it is spelled like this, Aebleskiver, with the 'L' between the 'B' and second 'E'. When looking up the pan on Amazon.com and Walmart.com, the 'L' and 'E' are transverse. Note: that I had to drop the 'A', and spell it "ebelskiver" to get the pan to show up on Walmart.com Amazon.com was more flexable with the spelling. Which is the correct way to spell it? Though there are several accepted ways, moving the 'L' around is not one of them, and needs to be addressed.

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History

The history section in this article has little encyclopedic value. It contains one extreme speculation that is almost certainly not true, cited to the website of a US-American restaurant in California, which is far from a reliable source. This restaurant appears to have created the myth from whole cloth; every other resource on the history of the food I can find mentions that author, as well. Indeed, I would argue that this myth fails to meet the standards of verifiability. JeanLackE (talk) 02:52, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

I found a couple of comments about this online asserting that Viking shields were wooden and that they, therefore, couldn't have been used as pans over a fire. Largoplazo (talk) 11:48, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

Yeah, this assertion is actually just ridiculous. It may deserve to be in the article, because it's an important part of the mythology of these things, but certainly not in the history section until such a time as we know something true about the history. JeanLackE (talk) 14:53, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

This little story was obviously nonesense. Danish pirates cooking pankaces on their shields..haha. It's more likely that these type of baking goods originated in Northern Germany or even further down south and then eventually found their way into danish cuisine. buz even that is just a guess.