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“A Strong and Narrow Peasant Combination”: The Food Historian’s Menu
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Gustaf Skarsgård, 39, has read about the “Emigrants” books several times.
But the role of Karl-Oskar also requires a physical transformation.
– It is a combination of strong and narrow peasant, says Skarsgård, 39, to Aftonbladet Nöje.
Photo: JOHAN BERGMARK
Gustaf Skarsgård is filming the new movie “Emigrants”.
The crown sprout halted filming of the Skarsgård family film “What Remains”, Gustaf Skarsgård, 39, would have had the male lead and father Stellan a minor role, with Stellan’s wife Megan Everett Skarsgård as director.
The canceled spring plans gave Gustaf Skarsgård even more time to prepare for his role as Karl-Oskar in the new film “Emigrants”, which has just begun filming. The “Vikings” star has read about the books several times, but has also spent time obtaining Karl-Oskar’s body.
– You really have the opportunity to work with physics, he says.
– It was a combination of being strong and thin – they didn’t have much food at the time. So it has been intense work.
How have you worked with him?
– It was only to train a fucking dough and eat much less.
How much have you lost?
– I think it will be so silly to give numbers because then suddenly it will be as if you have to start measuring the ambitions of the actors in kilograms and it will be very bad, but at least I am happy that I had a lot of time to prepare properly.
Photo: JOHAN BERGMARK
Gustaf Skarsgård and Lisa Carlehed in “The Emigrants”.
“He lost five kilos”
Lisa carlehedThe 41-year-old, who plays Kristina, has also physically prepared herself to be able to play a farmer’s wife from the 1840s.
“I haven’t trained like Gustaf has – I should be able to build houses and stuff – but losing weight has been part of my preparation,” he says.
– I may have lost ten pounds. Before it was not huge and now they tell me that I should not go down any more, I am also going to wear the clothes that they brought me.
Was it a special diet from the 19th century?
– No, it was probably the old habit that people still know: that you should avoid carbohydrates, bread, sugar and dairy products, a bit like that.
Skarsgård in “Vikings”.
I ate only wheat for Christmas
Karl-Oskar and Kristina from Reality had a lean diet. A few years of poor harvest finally became the reason they decided to flee to the United States.
– The important thing for emigrants, when they say that they emigrate towards a better life, is that they emigrate towards a better diet. Not only have plenty of food on the table so you can eat enough but also a better meal, says the food historian Richard Tellström.
The menu of the 1840s in South Jutland was dominated by cereals, says the associate professor of food knowledge seen in SVT series such as “Landet brunsås” and “Historieätarna.”
– It is the staple food in Sweden. Rye and barley are the big things there, but they probably didn’t eat wheat, because it was quite expensive, so you only ate it at Christmas, says Richard Tellström.
– There were a lot of porridge, porridge and soups.
Photo: JOHAN BERGMARK
Gustaf Skarsgård, Lisa Carlehed, Tove Lo in “The Emigrants”.
Poor plant food
They also ate a lot of potatoes, which could be grown in the ground where it was not possible to grow cereals. The lack of vegetables compensated somewhat.
– If they ate a lot of potatoes, they survived scurvy. Potatoes are not very rich in vitamin C, but since we eat a lot, it becomes a good value for vitamin C, says Richard Tellström.
They then ate fish caught in nearby lakes or salted herring from the sea.
– But since the Ljuders parish, where they came from, is several kilometers from the coast, they have not eaten fresh fish from the coast but possibly salted or canned.
There wasn’t that much meat.
– At Christmas, he could eat pig’s feet or something similar, then he sold most of the pig to the people of the city, so that he could get money to buy more important goods, like nails, more beautiful fabrics or snus.
Dreaming of coffee bread
After the shoot, Copenhagen-based Lisa Carlehed looks forward to indulging in a cardamom muffin at a Lund patisserie again. Perhaps it is together with her opponent, who yearns for the same, almost the same.
– I’m pretty weak for cardamom buns. Buttery, good cardamom buns. That’s probably what I missed the most, says Gustaf Skarsgård.
– You may have cheated at some point, but I hope to get into a cozy winter bubble, munching on some scones and cuddling up a bit.
That they both now long for cardamom buns, says Richard Tellström, because Swedish coffee bread may symbolize everything that was not yet available to poor farmers in the 1840s.
– A cardamom bun is made from wheat flour and is expensive. Cardamom was also expensive, and sugar consumption in Sweden began in the 1860s, 70s and 80s, he says.
– What they lack (Carlehed and Skarsgård) is simply the prosperity of industrialism. So it’s kind of funny that they said that.
Menu
▪▪ Bread
– We have to include that, and it can be a soft rye bread from southern Sweden.
▪▪ A piece of cheese and a piece of sausage
▪▪ Milk porridge – porridge made with some kind of flour – with milk.
▪▪ Threshold
– If you ate herring, you used to divide it into three parts, so that the man of the house got the middle piece, the children the tail and the wife the head. Those who were the breadwinner and needed to work were always allowed to eat better.
▪▪ Malt drinks
– It is a weak drink or a very weak beer of light strength or similar. So it can also be brandy, but I’m not entirely sure if Karl-Oskar could have been a sober man.
▪▪ Porridge with milk or beer
– They ate porridge with milk, soda, or beer. So wet porridge. So it makes it a little easier to eat, a little more humid. But if you had milk in the porridge that we have today, you would have had a better economy because then you would have had cows that gave so much milk that you could drink it instead of eating it like cheese and butter.
Photo: Jonathan Olley
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