Swedish Limpa Bread
Combine fennel seeds, cumin seeds, caraway seeds, bulgur wheat, butter, treacle and orange zest with the boiling water. Soak for 1 hour to meld flavours and soften the bulgur. Add bulgur mixture with the bicarbonate of soda, rye flour, bread ... [... more]
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Scandinavian almond biscuits
In a medium bowl, cream the butter and sugar. Add egg and almond essence; mix until fluffy. Stir in flour, baking powder and salt; mix well. Divide dough into 4 pieces, and roll each one into a log about 30cm long. Place 2 logs per cookie sheet ... [... more]
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Beatrice Ojakangas
Beatrice Ojakangas has written more than a dozen cookbooks, including Pot Pies, Quick Breads, Light Desserts, The Finnish Cookbook, The Great Scandinavian Baking Book, and Scandinavian Feasts. She works as a consultant for Pillsbury and other ... [... more]
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Smoked Salmon
Rinse the fish fillets and place them in a shallow glass baking dish. Drizzle oil over the fish and season with garlic and rosemary. Rub the seasonings into the fish. Cover and refrigerate overnight. Dissolve the curing salt in the water and pour ... [... more]
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Fondue Bread
Combine sugar, salt, yeast and 125g flour in a large bowl. Stir in hot milk mixture and beat with electric mixer on medium speed for 2 minutes. Add another 125g flour and continue beating for 2 minutes. With a wooden spoon, stir in remaining ... [... more]
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May's applecake (aka Majs appelkaka)
Mix flour, sugar, baking powder and buttermilk with melted butter. Pour mixture into a broad pie dish and bake for 8 minutes. Sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon and bake for a further 35 minutes. Preheat oven to 200 degrees C or 180 degrees C fan ... [... more]
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Swedish orange bread
Combine 1 cup (125 g) of the rye flour, the plain flour, wholemeal flour, yeast, sugar, orange zest, anise seed and salt in a large bowl. Make a well in the centre. Combine the milk, golden syrup and oil in a small saucepan. Heat over a low heat ... [... more]
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Finnish stick biscuits
In a medium bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth. Stir in 1 egg and the almond essence. Combine the salt and flour; stir into the sugar mixture with your hands until a smooth dough forms. Roll and cut the dough into log shaped ... [... more]
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Katherine Langrish
Katherine Langrish grew up in the Yorkshire Dales, the hill country of northern England, where there are still strong Scandinavian traces (in place names, family names, and even dialect) from the Danes who settled the area a thousand years ago, ... [... more]
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Kari Stenman
Always outnumbered by their Soviet counterparts, the small band of Finnish fighter pilots who defended their Scandinavian homeland from the 'communist hordes' in three separate wars between 1939 and 1945 amassed scores only bettered by the ... [... more]
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Marianne Fredriksson
Sweeping through one hundred years of Scandinavian history, this luminous story follows three generations of Swedish women--a grandmother, a mother, and a daughter--whose lives are linked through a century of great love and great loss. Resonating ... [... more]
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Gravlax recipe
Drape cling film over a glass baking dish. Cut salmon in half lengthwise, and place one half in dish, skin side down. Mix together salt, brown sugar and pepper. Sprinkle half of mixture over salmon in the dish, cover with the chopped dill, and ... [... more]
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