"Dick R." > wrote in message
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> Hi Anders,
> I don't know the origin of the casserole, but the Swedish "hot dish"
> that I remember was a conglomeration of "stuff" in various combinations
> (meat, potato, tomato, noodles, soup, etc.) placed in a baking dish and
> cooked in the oven. Maybe it was a result of the Great Depression when
people
> would try to make a meal out of whatever they could find.
>
Thanks for the explanation - what puzzled me was the attribution of
"Swedish"... Assembling leftovers is probably a feature of any national
cooking where economy counts, and can sometimes give delicious results. (I'm
thinking of some tasty pies my wife has assembled at times :-)
What you describe as Swedish certainly did not come with the 19th century
immigrants, by the way - neither tomatoes nor noodles were known to them
<g>..., but the general principle may have.
Anders