Swedish stuff again
Looks like I'm not getting a 'Semla' today... Maybe I have to cook some for the weekend!YYUUUMMMM! See you's later, I'm going for a run, meanwhile, you can start eating all you delicious stuff back home. In Sweden, we have a day called 'Fettisdagen' translated that would be 'Fat tuesday' which can be compared with 'Shrove day' or the 'Pancake day' in other countries. In Sweden, we are very good at celebrating all those little stuff, we have a 'Cinnamon bun day' as well, and I'm pretty sure we have a 'Pancake day' and heaps of other funny days, but they are the big ones. Today is the biggest day for all the bakeries, they start making 'Semlor' (plural for 'Semla') as early as in the middle/end of January! People often buy these delicious buns more than on the actual day, and it's a time of the year we're all looking forward to. Every year, all the bakeries go in to a competition of what bun is the best and the result is posted in the newspaper. There are four things you look at: - The look of it - The bun, if it's dry, enough cardamum or just if it's a good bun - The cream, is it sugary/too sweet, flavourless or wipped to much - The marsipan, flavour, texture So, what is this little creamy bun? It's simply three things, a bun flavoured with cardamum, runny marsipan and cream. To put the bun together you basically cut the top of, save it for later, dig some of the bready stuff out from the bun, place the marsipan in the hole, cream on top, then the lid and sift some icing sugar on the lid. Now you all know about the Swedish 'Semeldagen' or 'Fettisdagen'!!