MISQUAH — First Lutheran Church served 214 plates at its annual spring lutefisk and meatball supper Saturday, a parish record that narrowly surpassed the 211 served in 1998 and prompted what the Rev. Karl Lindholm called “a blessing, and also a logistical concern.”

The supper, in the church basement on Second Avenue, was scheduled for 4:30 to 7 p.m.; the last plate went out closer to 7:25. Tickets were $14 for adults, $7 for children, and free for anyone over 90, of whom four attended.

The Ladies’ Aid, which has run the supper since 1951, reported that the meatballs ran out at 6:40 p.m. The lutefisk, as in most years, did not. “We never run out of lutefisk,” said Aid president Marlys Tollefson. “That’s not how it works. That has never once been how it works.”

Lutefisk — cod cured in lye and then soaked back into something a person can eat — remains the supper’s nominal centerpiece and its chief subject of negotiation. A number of guests were observed building their plates entirely from the meatball end of the line, among them a sizable contingent from Sacred Heart, the Catholic parish across town, whose members turn out most years and are, Lindholm said, “welcome, genuinely — even the ones who walk right past the fish.”

Proceeds from the free-will offering go to the basement roof fund, now in its fourteenth year. Treasurer Vern Dahlquist reported a balance of $6,140 against an estimated need of “somewhere north of nine thousand, last we checked, which was a while ago.” He described the roof as “closer than it’s ever been,” a phrase the church bulletin notes he has used since 2014.

Asked whether Sacred Heart would return the hospitality, the parish office said only that its pie social is set for July, and that “everyone is welcome, no exceptions, even the Lutherans, even now.”