Lögberg-Heimskringla - 17.11.1989, Side 5

Lögberg - Heimskringla • Föstudagur 17. nóvember 1989 • 5
icelandic recipes Laufabrauð
(Traditional Crisp Chrístmas Bread)
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Laufabrauð has its origins in Northem lceland
inthe areas of Eyjafjörð and Suðurpingeyjarsýsla.
Literally translated, Laufabrauð means “Leaf-
Bread"; it is made from paper-thin dough im-
printed and woven with leaf-likedesigns and deep-
fried. It traditionally forms part of Christmas and
wedding feasts.
Making Laufabrauð is a time-consuming task
because of the decorating, and makes a good
group activrty involving family and friends on a
cold winter day._______ ___________
4cups flour 2tbsp. sugar
1 tbsp salt 1 tsp baking powder
3 cups milk 1/4 cup butter
Beat milk and butter together on stove until butter melts. Blend
milk and butter into dry ingredients.
Roll very thin on floured counter top. Cut into plate-size (8")
rounds. Imprint pattern using Laufabrauðsskeri, or by hand, and
inter-weave pattem ends to give latice effed.
Deep fry in very hot oil until golden brown on both sidés. Serve
w'rth traditional Christmas meal.
Obituary
Julia Kirsten
Gudmundson Schultz
1954 -1989
Julia Kirsten Gudmundson Schultz
died at her home, August 20, 1989. She
had been battling cancer for the last two
years.
She is the daughter of Magnus and
Doreen Gudmundson. Born May 4,1954
in Bremerton, Julia and the family moved
back to Bellingham when she was 4. She
attended school in Bellingham, graduat-
ing from Bellingham High in 1972 and
spent her summers in Point Roberts.
A working musician since she was 16,
she played piano, guitar, synthesizer,
accordion, fiddle and ukelele. She also
was “a great little singer” according to
Loretta Lynn. Her music took her to some
exotic locales, touring Western Canada
and the West Coast of the U.S. after high
schoolwith the localgroup “Mossy Rock”.
She moved to Hawaii in 1978, where she
joined the wacky Waikiki band “The
Foundry” and met future husband, drum-
mer Roy and, after a successfulyear there,
they both wound up in Point Roberts.
Married in Bellingham in 1980, the
Schultzes made Point Roberts their home
base while touring the western U.S. and
Canada as the duo “J&R Connection”.
Julia also sang and played with the Point
Roberts band, “The Bradfords”.
Hawaii called again and Julia and Roy
retumed to form “Julie & the Electric
Rangers” with someold friends, a contem-
porary country band that specialized in
authentic recreations of classic country
songs. They went on to record and per-
form with the likes of Tennessee Emie
Ford, Little Jimmie Dickens, Hank Th-
ompson, Jack Greene and Ace Cannon.
They went on two overseas tours, once on
their own and another on a package show
with Freddy Fender to such places as the
Phillipines, Korea, Japan, Okinawa and
Guam:
Julie & the Rangers toiu-ed the west-
em half of the U.S. to promote their first
album, performing material written and
produced by Julia at such clubs as the
Million DoÚar Cowboy Bar in Jackson
Hole, Wyoming, Mr. K’s in North Platte,
Nebraska, and Cowboys in Albuquerque,
New Mexico.
The Schultzes moved back to the
mainland and spent the summer of 1985
camping and exploring the backroads of
the good ol’ U.SÁ from San Diego to
Luchenback, Texas to New Orleans
through Mississippi, through Nashville
and the Great Smoky Mountains through
the Carolinas to New Jersey and New
York City to Pennsylvania then back to
Point Roberts for a family reunion.
After a quicktrip backto Nashville for
Julia to appear on and win TNN-TV talent
show “You can be a star,” she and Roy set
off on another road trip north with the
“Andy Stevens Show” to Whitehorse in
the Yukon plus stops in Northem B.C.
and Alberta, with Julia all the while quite
pregnant. Son Jonas Lee was bom in
Bellingham soon after thatlast bumpy trip
downthe AlaskaHighway. With her “show
mustgo on” attitude, she never complained
as long as the heater was up!
work that was too good to be tme, in the
hills of EastTennessee. Well, it was. So by
January 1987 the Schultz family moved
from Rockwood, TN to Nashville, with
son Jonas now five months old.
Although working full time, soon af-
ter their arrival, low wages and the “big
city life” made the Schultzes reassess their
situation. They decided to save for one
more trip back to the Northwest to finally
settle down near friends and family, real-
izing this is an ideal location to raise kids
as well as call home.
Soon after their decision, inklings of
her future illness began to occur. By
August, 1987, the doctors in Nashville
encouraged Julia to get back to Belling-
ham to begin tests on what was initially
diagnosed as pneumonia.
After imdergoing chemotherapy and
radiation treatments, the cancer was
thought to have gone into remission. Julia
resumed her playing career once again
with husband Roy on dmms in their coun-
try band “Melody Ranch”, performing
most recently at American Legion Post 86
in Birch Bay.
Having to quit in Febmary of this
year, Julia underwent surgery and then a
bone marrow transplant in April. Although
the transplant was a success, the cancer
retumed.
Her music, her voice, her personality
touched many lives. She is loved through-
out the country and the world. She brought
comfort to troops overseas and a smile to
the guy on a comer stool.
Hardworking, stubborn, tme to her-
self. Mother, wife, daughter, sister, friend.
She is survived by father Magnus
Gudmundson and his wife, Jo of Femdale,
mother Doreen Gudmundson of Belling-
ham, brothers Lee and Jon of Bellingham
and brother Eric,
who is moving to
Iceland, husband
Royandsonjonas
Lee of Femdale.
Memorial
services were held
August 27 atTrin-
ity Community
Lutheran Church
in Point Roberts.
The Whole Truth:
Sagas from the Quills
by Emil Bjarnason
103 pp., Vancouver, lcelandic
Canadian Club of Britísh Columbia
These'folksy stories of Icelanders
from the Wynyard area of Saskatchewan
will be primarily of interest to those
Westem Icelanders who have roots or
relations in that area. They will know the
people who are involved in them and there
is a prairie flavour to many of the stories.
The stories may also find a wider
audience, however. They are not high
literature by any means. The writing is
generally competent, but by no means
distinguished. A good proof reader would
have helped in making it a more respect-
able volume.
Even so, many of these tales have the
ring of truth about them. There is an
“Icelandicness” to them that will be un-
mistakable to anyone who has grown up
within a^Western Icelandic community
anywhere in North America. I have never
been to Wynyard, but there are charac-
ters in this book whom I recognize, not
because I know them personally, but
because I have known people very similar
in their natiu-es and their circumstances.
These are not really short stories or
even bits of history; they are anecdotes.
Mr. Bjamason tells them well. Most of us
have a weakness for anecdotes, and this
bookmaystrikea
sympathetic
chord and find a
place on the
shelves of many a
Westemlcelandic
library. For that
matter, it would
notbeoutofplace
on any library
shelf, no matter
what the back-
ground of the
reader.
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weeks old, the
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off on another
adventure, this
time with a prom-
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