by Isabelle Fredborg | Mar 19, 2021
Waffle-related accidents do happen. In 1943, an inspector in the regiment of Västerbotten was entrusted with 10,000 SEK in cash. During his weekend permission, he decided to keep the money safe in a metal box in the far back of a baking oven. Unfortunately, a group of...
by Isabelle Fredborg | Mar 12, 2021
Time for some childhood nostalgia: raspberry soup, or hallonkräm. My mother made tasty sweet soups of all kinds for our snack time — rhubarb, raspberry, apple — but sometimes, we kids would make the soups using a ready-made powder. And the commercials for ready-made...
by Isabelle Fredborg | Nov 13, 2020
To continue the last article’s theme of sturdy dishes from the south of Sweden, let’s turn to Scanian apple cake, or skånsk äppelkaka. The idea of frying flavorful grated rye bread in browned butter and layering it all with a cinnamon-scented apple...
by Isabelle Fredborg | Oct 9, 2020
What’s perfect to eat on a nice picnic? I’m sure many Swedes would nominate plättar, or Swedish mini-pancakes. Somehow, they are even more delicious than their famous larger sibling, the thin pancake. However, there are different ways of picnicking, as...
by Isabelle Fredborg | May 11, 2020
Few things in the kitchen scream “childhood!” as much as chocolate balls, or chokladbollar. They are simple and appropriately messy to make, making it a perfect baking project to do together with kids. Then, once the kids are a bit older, they’ll...
by Isabelle Fredborg | Apr 30, 2020
Sans rival means unrivaled. That’s a hard feat for a cake to live up to — but if one cake can do it, then maybe it is this one. It even has a royal connection: “At least once a year, the king gets a homebaked cake. It is a big, magnificent Sans Rival,...