TYPICAL FOOD
Gastronomy of Finland
It has many regional influences from others european gastronomies, the culinary manners of the inhabitants of finland It is marked by eating fish, vegetable fermentation. It has influences from other cuisines like the Swedish, German and Russian, but it has own differences for example: Finnish dishes are generally less sweet than Swedish and use less sour cream that Russian dishes.
Kalakukko
Typical dishes like kalakukko-a pie stuffed of fish and pork, baked with a layer of flour, and Karjalan piirakat -a flour pastry stuffed with potatoes or rice pudding and served with butter-egg. They are typical delights of this country.
ingredients:
filling:
800 grams of small fish. Normally muikku.
200 grams of bacon loin or bacon
1 teaspoon salt.
Pan:
4 dl water
7 dl rye flour
3 dl white flour
50 g butter
2 teaspoons salt
Korvapuusti
These rolls were known in the nineteenth century, time when only the rich people could enjoy the pleasure of tasting them by the high cost of manufacture. Until the twentieth century, especially after World War when they began to take a greater role, the Korvapuusti began to be sold in all kinds of pastry.
They are cinnamon rolls that are prepared by winding a stretched dough with yeast, which has above butter layer on which a mixture of sugar and cinnamon espolvore. This mass, once rolled, cut into portions and placed in the oven.
Ingredients:
for the mass
350 g of butter
100 g of yeas
3 L of flour
1 L of milk
4 L of sugar
2 eggs
2 spoonful of salt
For the padding
butter
sugar
canella
For decoration
eggs
sugar
Wild strawberry ice cream
Autumn is one of the most spectacular seasons in Finland because of its great forests. There are a lot of red fruits which are collected in this season. The most important fruits are berries which are mainly used to make desserts.
Recipe (Serves 6)
Ingredients
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3 egg yolks
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½ dl sugar
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3 dl of cream for coffee
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400 g of wild strawberries
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½ dl sugar
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1 tablespoon cranberry brandy
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1 tablespoon strawberry liqueur
Cooking method
1. Mix the egg yolks, sugar and cream in a double boiler and whisk until the cream reaches 82 ° C. Place the container in ice water to cool.
2. Mash the strawberries with sugar using the food processor
3. Add 3/4 of the cream and brandy at the base of the ice cream.
4. Add at the end of the strawberry mixture a little sugar and diluted, for example with strawberry liqueur, to the consistency of a sauce.
5. Decorate the ice cream portions with whole strawberries and strawberry sauce.
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