Isterband ursprung

Swedish pork sausage

Isterband (Swedish: "lard-strips") is a coarsely ground, lightly smokedsausage from Sweden.^[1] It is made of pork, barleygroats and potato. There are many varieties of isterband in Swedish cuisine, such as "småländska isterband" from the region of Småland, "syrliga isterband" with a slightly sour taste, and "lättisterband" with a low calorie content. Isterband is often served together with creamed dill potatoes and pickled beetroot.

Isterband is traditionally a lacto-fermented sausage. The traditional method was to hang the sausage over the stove. Today factories often add lacto bacteria to have the same effect faster. The sausage is always more or less sour.^{[citation needed]}

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Isterband korv

Isterband korv is a lightly smoked pork sausage with a slightly sour flavour from the Småland region of southern Sweden. It is considered to be a classic of Swedish husmanskost (traditional home cooking).

Why is it called  isterband?

Ister means lard and band comes from att binda (to bind), so isterband means bound lard. Don't let that put you off as all sausages contain lard or pork fat, which melts during the cooking process, distributing the heat evenly and adding to the flavour. In contrast, low fat sausages have less flavour and are harder to cook because the contents are very insulating leading to the outside browning before the inside is cooked.

Thirfty Smålanders

Ingvar Kamprad just before his 90th birthday

Of course, lard was added to sausages for another reason: it is cheap! As a famous Smålander, Ingvar Kamprad, put it in an interview in for TV4, "it is in the nature of Småland to be thrifty".

Mr Kamprad was the founder of IKEA and, despite his vast wealth, was renowned for his devotion to frugality, reportedly driving an old Volvo and travelling by economy class. "If you look at me now, I don&