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Homemade Swedish Potato Sausage ♥ Recipe & Photos

Last month, twas my honor to witness something magical, a grandmother passing a family tradition along to two of her granddaughters. I took a few pictures so that readers might tag along too. Here's how to make homemade Swedish potato sausage, the classic Swedish dish, with step-by-step photos and tips. It happened like a scene right out of Carl Larsson , the renowned Swedish painter who captured home and family scenes in the Swedish countryside in the last 1800s and early 1900s. There we were on an unseasonably warm afternoon on the last day of November, the grandmother all organized and prepared, the kids smart from school, me bearing a camera and a tin of allspice -- all gathered in the kitchen to make one of the family's traditional Swedish recipes, an important dish for the feast on Christmas Eve. The dish? Homemade potato sausage, 'potatis korv' en svenska. Here's how it's made, with love. TESTIMONIALS "We had a ball this afternoon grinding everything