Preparation info
  • Serves

    16

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Anna and Michael Olson Cook at Home

By Anna Olson and Michael Olson

Published 2010

  • About

Rulapylsa is a spiced meat roll served cold on buttered brown bread with salt. It’s a familiar taste to those of Icelandic heritage. In some cases, it’s one of the few reminders of a heritage that was quickly assimilated into mainstream North American life.

Ingredients

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Method

Lay out flank on an old clean tea towel or large piece of cheesecloth. Blend cloves, allspice, pepper and salt together, sprinkle over the surface of the meat and cover with minced onion. Roll up the flank into a tight cylinder with the grain of the meat running along the length. Tie the meat roll with butcher’s twine at 2-inch (5-cm) intervals and wrap in the tea towel or cheesecloth. Place th