Kettle River news

Jim and Mary Sanders will be putting up cornstalks on the light poles again this month. If you would like to adopt a light pole to decorate for fall, let Mary know.

Come to the next Kettle River city council meeting at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 11 at the council room.

The last Finnish Luncheon for the season will be Oct. 18. We will be saying goodbye and “safe travels” to all our snowbirds.

Quilting at Holy Trinity is every Wednesday from 9 a.m. until noon. Donations of new cotton fabric are appreciated. Items for donation can be brought to the church during our quilting time or brought to me.

My mother liked to go to the aebleskiver dinner at a church in Clifton, Illinois. Aebleskiver is a Danish pancake puff that is fried in a special type of cast iron skillet.

When the church first started doing the dinner, all the women of the church would have to bring their own aebleskiver skillets to cook the pancakes. As the older women died, the children began donating their mothers’ skillets to the church until eventually they had enough that they no longer needed to borrow everyone’s skillets.

This was such a popular event in the area people came from many miles around to attend. The people had to take a number to wait until tables were available to be seated to eat. The dinner was served family style with applesauce and sausage along with the pancake puffs, and it was an all-you-can-eat event.

When my husband and I joined my mom, brother and sister-in-law, the room held enough tables for about 100 people to be seated at one time and the waiting area held about enough room for another 100 people.

As soon as there was an opening for someone, they were called by number and seated. I have heard that there is another aebleskiver dinner in Askov. I don’t know when it is, but if you have never tried it, it is something you might want to try sometime.