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Terms in Norwegian 1451-1460 of 2001

renseri

[Norwegian] plural renseriet

Cleaner

reveamarant

[Norwegian]

Amaranth. This covers many varieties of a sweetish green leafy vegetable known by many different names, including callalloo, elephant’s ear, African/Chinese/Ceylon/Indian spinach, Surinam amaranth, basella etc. Most commonly it is a tropical climbing plant that can grow as high as 2 meters (6 ft), the leaves being harvested as the plant grows and cooked in the same way as spinach. In India the most common is Basella alba or Indian Spinach.

ribbe

[Norwegian]

Spare ribs

riddermusserong

[Norwegian]

Man on horseback. A type of pleasant edible mushroom of yellowish colour with which some cases of poisoning have been recorded.

ridderost

/RI-dehr-oost/
[Norwegian]

A semihard cows' milk cheese which may be eaten as a young, fresh cheese or as a hard strong cheese.

ringdue

[Norwegian]

Woodpigeon

rips

/ripss/
[Norwegian]

Redcurrants

ris

/rees/
[Norwegian] plural riset

Rice

ris à la Malta

[Norwegian]

Rice pudding often served on Christmas Eve. It is made with short grain rice, milk, vanilla and almonds with double cream (US: heavy cream).

risgrynsgröt

[Norwegian]

Rice pudding. Rice porridge, traditionally served on Christmas Eve.