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Ljost Pilsnar refers to a fizzy beverage drink available in Faroe Islands supermarkets and shops, said to be a beer, yet with only or barely an alocohol content of 2.8%

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Lomo Embuchado refers to a cured ham from Andalucia, Spain made from the loin of Pata Negra that is rubbed with pimenton, salt and garlic and then air cured. It is also known as Caña de Lomo.

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Lihapiirakka refers to Finland's meat pasty. It isa pasty of yeast dough or puff pastry filled with cooked and seasoned ground meat into which rice, onion, chopped hard -boiled eggs or other ingredients may be added. Pasties can be baked in oven or deep-fried.

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Lihapyörykkä refer to meatball in Finland. Lihapyörykkä are small and round meatballs made with ground meat mixed with eggs, fresh bread or breadcrumbs, spices, cream, milk or other liquid. Meatballs are fried in skillet or baked in oven. Lihapyörykkä is synonymous to Lihapulla.

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Lohikeitto refers to Finnish salmon and cream soup; clear or creamy salmon and vegetable soup. Lohikeitto is a very traditional dish from Finland. Finns eat this year-round and nothing has to be imported. Lohikeitto is salmon soup made of salmon, potatoes, onions and carrots. Usually you start off the soup by frying some sourdough bread in butter before you add some fish stock and the other ingredients with the salmon are adeed last. To serve, lots of cut dill in the soup and cream. Back in Lapland and down in southeastern Finland near the Russian border, Lohikeitto is another regional specialty,

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Lapte de Pasare is a Romanian culinary term whcih literally means "floating island". It refers to a Romanian dessert consisting of stiff egg whites which are floating in vanilla sauce. Similar to a French dessert

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