Anjovismunahyydyke

Anjovis is the Finnish name for tinned fillets of sprat, but it was with real anchovy fillets that Inger Antell demonstrated this dish to me, while explaining that it could be made with Finnish ‘anchovy’, or with Baltic smoked herring, or indeed with kipper fillets. This information was imparted under the gaze of her beautiful mother, whose portrait, perhaps the finest by the Finnish art nouveau painter Gebhard, looks down upon her dining table with calm authority. Ever sensitive to my surr