Tété-Michel Kpomassié

All the time she was talking, Jakobina was serving us coffee, after which she brought in some reindeer fat. Each of us cut off a piece and put it in his hot coffee with or without sugar, laced with akvavit; I did the same. As it melts, the fat forms little oily circles on the surface. After the coffee is drunk, there is a little fat left in the bottom of the cup, which you take out with a spoon and swallow with a lump of sugar. “How do you like it?” Knud asked me. “It’s very good!”.