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No she did not pronounce Ärtsoppa & Pannkakor (Pea soup & panncakes) nowhere near correct. That was actually painful lmao
And you do NOT dip the pancakes in the soup!! First the ärtsoppa then the pancakes.
Me watching this like WTF is Artchoko pankoko? SFX Me looks at picture Ärtsoppa & Pankakor Oh yeah she is just fuck bad at saying ɛʈʂɔpːa & p'anːkɑːkor one trip to the Phonetic alphabet and she could have said it right "but hey why put in effort trying to say something in a different language right?"
I'm watching this semi lucid (so tired) and I didn't understand what food it was til I sat up rubbed my eyes and said "Oh" out loud.
tumbs up, my tummy dont agree witgh pea soup and i can only handle about 3 pan cakes befor i feel sick so it is not a favorite for me, but your are right.
the fact she didn´t bother to even try do a google seartch and make it somewhat correct
Did she say pyttipanna for breakfast? Absolutely not! It's for lunch (or maybe dinner).
Yea
Yes, we don't traditionally eat prepared foods for breakfast, except maybe porridge.
I've had pyttipanna for breakfast many times. Mostly on weekends when you wake up a bit later and want to cook a warm breakfast though.
It's similar to egg and bacon or sausage breakfasts.
@@SonnyKnutsonfast du kan äta stek och kalla det frukost också. Det blir liksom inte frukost för det. Ingen äter tex pyttipanna 06 på morronen innan jobbet. Du kanske sover länge och käkar det vid 11…. Men då är det ju lunch.
@@erikstenviken2652 Det är nog mindre vanligt men det händer definitivt.
Väldigt många hotell serverar varm mat som frukost. Så det är inte så ovanligt som du får det att låta :) Det är inte normen skulle jag väl säga.
They mix up pickled herring with the stinky and nasty surströmming (literally "sour herring"). Pickled herring isn't fermented, just pickled. Putting surströmming on a smorgasbord (smörgåsbord) would ruin it completely...
Even I who like surströmming agree that you would absolutely ruin a smorgasbord if you put surströmming anywhere near it. We do infact at surströmming feasts put our butter on a plate, the amount we plan to use, as we do not want to contaminate the entire tub of butter with the smell of surströmming. Also clothes might need to be washed afterward.
@@evawettergren7492 Never tried it, but I sure want to. Does it really smell as bad as everyone says?
@@kultomtenI love eating surströmming and can stand the smell during the nice dinner. But I cannot stand the smell when it last in the room in half a day afterwards.
That is why we prefer to have our surströmmingparty outside in summer time! 😋😋🎶🍸
@kultomten I dont eat surströmming but as I am not that picky I tend to be the one opening the can. That is the worst part. The worst smell is just as you open it and that is why many prefer to open the can in a bucket filled with water. Once open and aired most of the smell goes away. About the taste it is not a delicasy but not bad. There is just so many other things that are better to eat :)
@@kultomten It smells much worse than you´ve ever heard!
No no no, you shall not dip the pancakes in the peasoup as she said in the video! :D First you eat the peasoup and afterwards the pancakes! Me myself always make the peasoup from yellow dry peas that are allowed to boil in water together with bouillon from chicken (the proper way would be to use broth from boiled pork meat) and then use the spices salt, pepper and thyme. When I eat the soup I love to have a dollop of mustard from Skåne in the soup. This is a very classic swedish meal!
Indeed, the pancakes are dessert.
The best thing is just to skip the pea soup and go straight to the pancakes.
@@erikstenviken2652 You can only do that as a grownup :). It's absolutely forbidden for the kids to go for the pancakes before having eaten their soup 😉
@@erikstenviken2652 I like pea soup far too much to do that! You're welcome to, though.
I love how some of those channels are even less accurate than full AI generated videos.
Just as you’ve guessed, your pronunciation is much better than the presenter’s!
And like others have commented, a few facts are wrong in this video:
Pickled herring (sill) and fermented herring (surströmming) are two completely different foods made from the same ingredient and eaten in similar ways.
Pyttipanna is lunch/dinner food, not breakfast.
Don’t eat soup and pancakes together, soup first and pancakes after. There not served together-together. (The reason they’re often paired together is because soup on its own isn’t hearty enough whereas pancakes on its own contains mostly flour. You need something more to feel full!)
It’s gravad lax, not gravlax. (Unless you’re saying something like “en gravlaxsmörgås” - a sandwich with gravad lax.)
Smörgåstårta literally translates to sandwich cake.
Smörgås is such a weird name when you think about it. It literally means butter goose.
@@scyphe The word stems back from when people churned their own butter. When churning the milk, small lumps of butter rose to the surface of the milk and floated around just like a goose, or geese, on a lake. (Gås meaning goose), so the lumps of butter was called "butter goose" or "butter geese". So it went from "bread slice with 'butter goose' on it" -bröd med smörgås på- to later be shortened to just the word smörgås.
The word have been around since the 1500s.
Just a fun fact, and now everyone who read this and didn't knew, know!
smörgåstårta is absolutely the best!!
No cap, I could eat that happily for the rest of my life. Smörgåstårta is so good, especially with gravlax. Greetings from Finland
100% it is the only cake at my birthdays, one with tuna and salmon ond one with ham and cheese.
Prinsses cake take a hike.
@@Basca112 same here! no fucking strawberry cake. i want a sandwich cake! with fucking sea-food as is proper.
I do not understand our love for Smörgåstårta. People mix green peas, liver paste, mayonnaise, ham, shrimps etc. the only decent one is made by my sister with only shrimps and smoked salmon.
Pytt-i-panna is for lunch... You should try "Beef Rydberg"... It´s the "deluxe-extra-all-top-of-the-pops" version of a Pytt. A real gourmet treat....
She (and you) Said smörgåstårta pretty good! She however butchered ärtsoppa! And yes, you eat the soup first and after that the pancakes.., don’t know why but it’s amazing
Sigh! Second comment. Ostkaka is not comparable to cheesecake. They are two completely different things. Both the texture and the flavour is completely different!
They really didn't do enough research before making the video.
Both cheesecake and ostkaka is delicious though!
Ostkaka's origin is found close to where I grew up. In Småland it's common to have ostkaka as a dessert on Christmas. Served with ice cream/whipped cream and strawberry jam. Once tried ostkaka in a nice restaurant in Stockholm. That was not the same as the Frödinge one. Too much bitter almond... To get the recipe for the one sold in most food stores today they collected every family recipes around in Frödinge and chose the one they liked the most. Tried some home-made ones and they are really good as well!
Then there is the hälsingeostkaka as well (from Hälsingland), which I guess is kind of not totally different from the variant from Småland but absolutely not the same thing.
@@msvd76 Hi! Did not know about it! Seems to be without almonds and bitter almonds completely? And no eggs either. I bet both of them are delicious though :)
Dwayne, you should do a "Dwayne tries to cook [insert food here] from [insert country]" episodes !
i make my own Smörgåstårta every year for my birthday. It is not the easiest thing to do but totally worth it.
Real Swedish meatballs are kind of hard to find. Restaurants usually don't serve them. They make them too big and put in spices that aren't traditional. (Not saying it's bad)
You don't dip the pancake into the Pea Soup! They are eaten seperatly, pancakes are the desert.
If you like chrimp, or lobster, crayfish should be right upp your alley.
Pickled Herring is not the smelly stuff, it's just Herring cured in Vinegar and things like Mustard, Fish Roe, Onions, or whatnot. You can find them in any grocery store, and there are probably 100 different kinds.
Noway you’re not dipping the pancake in the pea soup!!😂😂 They are 2 separate dishes. But it’s a classic thursday lunch dish. Split pea soup with mustard, and then pancakes with jam and whipped cream. Maybe they are paired because peasoup is too frugal on it’s own?
First you eat the soup then you have the pancakes
i actually died from the pronunciation of ärtsoppa och pannkakor at 10:24 . that's the funniest thing I've heard in a while lol
It's said that the tradition of pea soup and pancake on Thursdays originates from a time when the Swedes fasted on Fridays for religious reasons. Therefore, there would be extra filling food on Thursday. The pea soup is the main course and pancake is dessert. When we were children, we had strong warnings that it was forbidden to eat the pancakes until we had eaten the pea soup.
I know some people may alternate between soup and pancakes during a meal, but I've never heard anyone dipping one in the other.
They go well together as a light main dish and dessert, but just about any soup could do just as well.
There's a hearsay of some Chinese visitors that didn't know what to do with the pancakes and dipped them in the soup. But yeah. I never heard of it and it sounds gross.
And yes, any soup could work. Not everyone eats pancakes on Thursdays, so most places offer alternatives.
I also not so in to marsipan but there is only a thin layer and it taste delicious when it blends with the heavy cream, vanilla cream, jam and cake in your mouth.
The stinky fish (surströmming) is not pickeled, its fermented.
Yes, pickled herring is just called "Sill" in Sweden, or "Inlagd Sill".
Do people actually eat it there or is it mainly just for shocking tourists?
@@Mr.Falcon541 oh yes, we do. In late August. But not in That barbaric way you can see on youtube. We eat it in small pices on thin white bread with potatoes, onion, butter. Some Will alsohave sour cream and tomatoes. A ”klämma”
Makes sense. Most of these we eat in Finland too but I think that's too much for me.@@sivsuikki9428
@@sivsuikki9428"We" as in a small minority of Swedes. ;)
I'd say Jacob Flygare is a Swedish dish you need to try before you die (and Kebabpizza)😅 Her saying Ärtsoppa och Pannkakor is so wrong I can't 🤣I barely understood what she said! Also, I was served this dish in the military, every Thursday!
Isnt it flygande Jacob? But yeah I had no idea what she was saying when she ws trying to say Ärtsoppa och Pannkakor, Dwaynes pronunciation was much better.
@@primushaggbom3455 Haha 🤣 Hur fan vände jag på det!?
All of this is pretty common in Finland too, with the exception of ostkaka and kladdkaka.
Lutefisk on Xmas was our family tradition, but died off 😅
If you put enough sauce and pepper on it paired with potatoes it’s ok.
And you're right, lutefisk is cod.
Love lutfisk 🇸🇪❤️
Hmm Finland was part of Sweden for 600 years... No wonder that the food culture is similar....
Lutfisk is not cod, it is ling.
panncakes and peasoup(with mustard) on a thursday is a military tradition. The officer also got punsch in their peasoup. And since the officers often came from universities so the tradition is also strong there. That´s the origin. I don´t think that it outside of the military became popular at homes and schools until maybe the late 70s. Maybe even mid 80s.
The same tradition here in Finland! Greetings from Finland
@@caprifolia1 To be honest I would not be surprised if you came up with it. This may be back when we were one country. Karl XII had this tradition I think. I with purpose refuse to google it. :)
The Swedish military have twice tried to not serve it on Thursdays and both times it came to cravalles in the military.
First time i think it was in middle 1800 dont remember the last time
That is absolutely right. But if we are to take it further, it comes from the time when we practiced the Christian faith more seriously, who practiced fasting on Fridays, so then you made sure to eat food that lasted more than full on Thursday evening. Peas were and are cheap and filling food and pancakes are incredibly good :-D
It was served in a schnapsglass with the meal. Not in the soup itself. This tradition acctually came from the farmers in the beginning and had nothing with the military to do. The farmers in that time had always a schnaps with every meal. This was because of the fat and the starch in the food. The schnaps helped with the digestion. That's why swedish people always had the rumours that they could drink everyone under the table because they had schnaps with every meal in the days.
The most expensive thing a poor farmer had at home on the shelf was the bottle of good punsch, and on every thursday only one 4cl schnaps with the peasoup was allowed.
Pickled herring: The herring are first salted and then they are pickled in a mixture of vinegar, water, sugar and spices. It's readyy to eat after a few days.
Surströmming : Small Baltic herring are caught in the spring, salted and left to ferment at leisure before being stuffed in a tin about a month before it hits the tables and shops. The fermentation process continues in the can - 'souring' as the Swedes refer to it - and results in a bulging tin of fermented herring
Ryvita actually started out as imported Swedish knäckebröd but they later decided to make their own to cut costs. It's not the same but its pretty close.
Oh and regarding humans being resourceful and knowing different techniques that may seem impossible to find by chance... Well, not everyone was that crafty, they died. A milion years of not so crafty people dying and here we are.
Ärtsoppa is almost 1000 years old, it was made because swedish farmers was producing an abundance of yellow peas, so it was ordered by the church (if i remember correctly) that we must eat it every week. at some point in history it was eaten 2 times a week. It was a common food during times of war because of the long shelflife, and the military kitchens still serves it every thursday. Dont forget the mustard :)
You know. Ärtsoppa isn't just Swedish invention. It's eaten in Poland, too (my 2nd country) in various variants. The most praised version is the one served by the military (which is pretty much the same as the Swedish one).
What is special in Sweden is the combo with the pancakes.
@@MagdalenaBozyk Dishes can evolve seperately in different places and still be similar. Doesnt mean any country "stole" it from the other. Meatball is such an example. The idea itself if not very unique and most countries has its version of the meatball but my guess is that the Swedish one is famous largely thanks to IKEA.
Believe me, you love the Swedish marzipan, it don’t taste like you think it will.
And the pancakes… you don’t eat them together and you don’t dip it in the soup! You eat it after the soup, like a dessert
swedish marzipan, if its the one called mandelmassa is more like a sweet almond paste and doesn not taste like the stale thing people call marzipan.
I don't usually eat marsipan, but on Prinsesstårta I appreciate it. It's often a very very thin layer on top with the marsipan. Try it when you visit, you can buy it in every grocery store as a one piece or two pieces in a box. The bakery sections in the stores are often as good as in the "real" bakery, and often much more affordable. I am Swedish and have never tried Lutfisk, my mom has always stated that it's disgusting so I grew up without it on the Christmas-food menu. 😀
Smörgåstårta is like you said sandwiches stacked and covered with mayonnaise or cream cheese. It's decorated with basically the ingredients of a salad. And most of the ones I've seen had scrimps and smoked ham on top as well. It's a very fancy triple or quadruple huge layered sandwich. And it's delicious!
I think it's way overrated, too many strong flavours at once that ruins every single one of the flavours.
You're right about pickled herring being a bit vinegary, at least the most basic variants, but it's not salty at all, there actually isn't any salt at all in most recipes. Commonly it's pickled in sugar and vinegar, with some spices and herbs added (mustards seeds, onions etc). After pickling it is also very common to put the herring in for example a mustard sauce or a sour cream based garlic sauce. There are probably hundreds of different versions of picked herring. None of them salty or stinky, all of them are delicious! 🙂 Not to be confused with Surströmming (sour herring) which is simultaneously very stinky and salty.
Lutfisk is probably more popular in Minnesota than here in Sweden. I don't know anyone who eats it. Not sure though.
We also eat in in Finland during the Christmas but to be honest you can keep it. :D
@@Mojova1 😂😂
@@Mojova1Yup. I had it as a child and it's disgusting. Smells a little like a plastic fart, weird gelatinous/fibrous texture and is overall nasty.
You should visit the ice Hotel in Jukkasjärvi Sweden when you is around Lappland. Its amazing, and the ice Hotel is rebuilding each year from ice off tornedal river sp its never the same as the year before.
Freely translations:
Pyttipanna ~ various (stuff) in pan.
Smörgåstårta ~ sandwich cake
I don't like lutfisk, but pickled herring is good and there's a lot of different flavorings like mustard herring or onion herring to name a few.
Ärtsoppa (pea soup) is the main dish, and the pancakes are eaten afterwards.
Mate. You are more than welcome to spend christmas with me and my family.
You seem like a really nice guy to hang around with.
Greetings from Sweden 🇸🇪
Smörgåstårta is basically the worlds biggest sandwich. It's the final boss of sandwiches.
It's a sandwich in the shape of a cake. You have five layers of bread and between those layers you put shrimp, liverpaste, relish, salmon, ham, mayo, cucumber, cheese, mustard and stonebit-caviar and you make it look fancy.
It's just pure wholesomeness that makes you feel ashamed for eating so much of it all.
Smörgåstårta är bäst!
@@Zoxzoi Man äter tills man skäms XD
- You eat until you are ashamed of yourself
What Susanne said. Pickled herring are derived from salted herring fillets that are then put in some other more or less viscous concoction. I like the vinegary type the most and they are often quite sweet combined with the vinegar zing. There are variants like "senapssill" (mustard herring) and "skärgårdssill" (archipelago herring) that are more sticky and opaque. Yoghurty stuff...
Agree, I'm not much for marsipan, but for some reason it works with princesscake.
I Love Smörgåstårta!!!!!! ....And she actually pronounce it very well !
Also, I recommend a Semla with vanilla custard filling instead of almond paste filling (especially if you don't like marzipan) x
But the almond paste filling is so good 🤤Im slightly alergic to almonfd but when it comes to semlor I eat them with almond paste either way.
And perfect for people allergic to almonds! I’ve also been served raspberry semla ones, which was also great. (With raspberries in the cream as well as the filling.)
You will love "kräftor". Its way better than you think! Basically you only eat the tail of the "kräfta", like you eat the tail of the shrimp/prawn.
Pann-kakor and ärt-soppa is a awesome dish on a thursday -with some "punsch".
Ärtsoppa och pannkakor is a centuries old tradition started in the Swedish army where they had this every Thursday. During the 1900's, when free hot school lunches started, they took a page from the army (because you know, serving hundreds of people is the same regardless of age) and the schools served it every Thursday too. This was popular and spread to most restaurants serving lunch and into the Swedish homes.
We humans have a lot of ways to preserve food, pickling, saltcuring, smoking, drying... for fish and meat, milk we have cheese and different types of yoghurt... then the fermentation like for grapejuice (wine) and vegetables (kimchi, sauerkraut...), and honey (and later sugar) has been used for jams, and even sliced meat
Pickled herring and the ”stinking fish” aka Surströmming are two completely different dishes. And you don’t used to combine them. 🤣
her preonounciation of Smörgåstårta is pretty good actually.
So hello, here comes them wacky swedish characters and how to pronounce them, in a slightly macabre style:
Å sounds like the O in Gore, Thor, Bore
Ä sounds like the A in Damn, Scam, Cram
Ö sounds like the U in Murder, Burn, Turn
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There is a clear distinction between pickled herring and fermented herring(stinky fish)
Pickled hering isnt stinky at all. Many are made with a brine of 1 part vinegar 2 part sugar and 3 part water or as we call it 1-2-3 brine.
I've never heard of anyone dipping their pancakes into the peasoup. The pancakes is for desert. You could eat either as standalone dish though.
The pancakes are usually served as a dessert after the peasoup
6:05 She actually says _smörgåstårta_ pretty right, and better than the other stuff she mentioned (that was surprisingly correct as well).
If you like shrimps, you will most likely like kräftor (crayfish). You eat the tail and the claws (the meat inside), and throw away the rest. They might not look pretty at a first glance, but think of them as small lobsters (lobsters are often served with the shell too, but rarely with the head). One have to crack the crayfish open (there are many techniques), so it is a pretty messy eating. If you can´t stand the crayfish look, there is often good bread, cheese, pies and some other food around at a "Kräftskiva" (crayfish party). Just don´t try the frozen crayfish - it should be freshly caught and homecooked ones! That makes all the difference in the world.
Just don't buy a 'semla' in Finland and expect the same thing, you will just get an ordinary small french bread. The bun with filling and whipped cream is called a 'fastlagsbulle' here.
Pancakes and peasoup began beeing served together at train resturants. It was two meals difficult to charge full price for. As the military started transporting troops with trains, they picked up the combo.
Also: one doesnt dip the pancakes into the soup.. You eat the soup first and then enjoy the pancakes.
Traditional swedish foods roughly consist of combinations of pork, potatoes, fish (fresh or pickled), shellfish, Dairy, cabbage and berries, combine as desired
usually peasuop is eaten by itself but in schools its always served with pancakes at lunchtime peasoup also usually has salted pork in it making it a complete and very healthy meal by itself
Ok, so we DO NOT dip pancakes (pankakor) in pea-soup(ärtsoppa)! You start with the soup, then eat the pancakes as a sort of desert.
Lutfisk is only for Christmas. But it was a staple in the middle ages due to the churches ban on eating meat on Fridays.
She forgot to say about Pytt i Panna, that it should also be served with sliced red beets. And the dish itself is meat, potatoes and some onions.
And for Ärtsoppa, it traditionally included pieces of ham, should be served with good hot mustard. And the Pancakes are a dessert eaten after the soup.. And the soup is traditionally only served in the months that have an "R" in the name. In some cases also served together with Punch (an Arrack-based liqeour, that can be served either hot or cold. Very popular in student circles)
The pickled herrings can probably be had in about 100 different flavours now. The latest ones even comes in Whiskey flavour. Other classic pickling is mustard, garlic, onion or saffron. So you can definatly find your favorite.
Pretty much all of these foods are also staples in Finland. In the Finnish military there still is pea soup (ärtsoppa) and pan cakes (pannkaka) every thursday.
I like your Sweden Day-videos. It's so nice of you to share some Swedish dishes and culture with the internet. And no, she doesn't pronounce the words correctly, but I don't expect anyone to, because it's not that easy. 😅
Thing about the princess cake, it's a very thin layer of marzipan so it works out, i'm also not a fan of marzipan at all but can still eat the cake without noticing it too much.
Smörgåstårta isn't a cake. I get so tired when youtubers always thinks it is a cake just because of the name. It is a multi-layered huge sandwich! The multi-layered part is what we in Sweden call tårta. Which is sometimes translated to cake but it is 100% correct. It can also mean just something that is layered. It is a BIG sandwich! Usually comes in either seafood (shrimp, salmon) or meat (roastbeef, liverpaté, cheese). They usually have a lot of mayonnaise. It is delicious!
you were right about the pickled herring it is very vinegary and is mostly eaten at christmas and midsummer and easter there are alot of varieties like mustard herring and lingonberry herring and i as a swede strongly recommend you to try alot of different kinds until you find one or two that you enjoy and lutfisk is almost tasteless but its served white a simple white sauce made of buttter flour and milk then you crack white peppep onto it and serve it with boiled potatoes and lingonberry jam
If you're going in the winter, go northern sweden.
Highly recommend the Jukkasjärvi Ice Hotel.
If you are traveling to sweden during the winter, I would reccomend the ice hotel in Jukkasjärvi. I have never been able but it is on my bucketlist.
A memory for life.
Pickled herring comes in all kinds of flavours. Some are delicious and some not so much. 😉 But all in all it’s a great dish. We swedes love it so much that most of us serve it at all kinds of holidays (Easter, Christmas and Midsummer) and anytime in between. 👍🏻🫶
The most common ones are not salty or too vinegary but packed with flavour. Great as a snack on a slice of knäckebröd. 😋
about the meatballs, the real thing is homemade. it is so easy. give them love and prepare before frying. and have lingonberry or another slightly sour jam. when you serve.
Fry onion translucent to yellow, mix with ground beef salt and pepper. fry DONE. Tip use a plastic bag to sprits ball sized and form.
for me this is base home food.
smörgås tårta (sandwich cake) is deliCIOUS. it is perfect as it is food not only sugar. keeps guests at for example wedding fed.
You start with the yellow peasoup (with pork in, and served with mustard), and then the pancakes as a dessert.
The crayfish is actually really good but it is a hassle to peel off all the shell. Therefore we always eat cheese pie, sallad and bread with the crayfish. The cheese pie is amazing and always made with a special Swedish cheese called Västerbottenost.
pickled herring can varry a bit depending on method... but generally its sweet and sour using a distilled white vinigar.
usually we get these in 24%-12% whichb if you drank it would chamically burn the throat... so we typically dilute this
assuming a 12& concentration the usual solution is something like 1 part distilled vinigar 2 parts water 3 parts sugar
then you would layer the cut up pieces of herring fillets in a yar with onion and carrot and repeat those layers putting in some speices like all spice etc as you go then toip it up with the liquid once its cooled then leave it in the yar in a fridge for at least a week or so...
Smörgåstårta tastes amazing, it's typicaqlly white bread in layers with typical sandwich items spread and topping it. for a spread liver paté and mayo mixed with creme cheese or creme fraiche and lemon and dill. as a topping you can use: shrimp, cucumber, tomatoes, lettuce, boiled eggs, pickles, grapes, orange slices, lemon slices, ham rolls, cheese rolled up nicely, salami. and some people even crush cheeze doodles and decorate the sides of the dish. The wet spread soakes the bread a bit and makes it into this cohesive dish instead of just a sandwich. it's the king of sandwiches i would say.
pyttipanna is a good relic from the past, it is kinda translated to putt in a pan (altho not exactly since pytt aint a real word used anymore) in older times it was made from left over food, instead of throwing potatos and meet away the diced it down and threw in a pan, usually served with beetroots and egg (also 2 ingreadents that was/is common in sweden) and also like some one pointed out, its nott for breakfast its more like a lunch thing
You should definitely come here to Lappland if you're gonna come during the winter! It is really beautiful! You should visit the ice hotel at Jukkasjärvi!
This is obviously personal preference but if you have the chance try to eat homemade kladdkaka instead of the stor/cafe bought ones. As a kid I got disapointed so many times when ordering kladdkaka, they were never good! It's probably just because its not what I was used to but to this day the ones made at home are always so much better, and as she said it's not hard to make either.
Try a saffranssemla in December when you are here.
I have a finish parent and lutfisk have only been served at hollidays, like easter and christmas at my dads gathering with my old finish grandmom doing the cooking. Haha.
For me traditionally smörgåstårta is eaten on new years eve with a glass of wine or champagne
In my house you can not celebrate Christmas without lutfisk. We eat it on Lucia (13/12 and Christmas day). The fish do not taste very much so you need to mix it with potatoes, béchamel souse, salt, allspice and in my family bacon and peas it is so good.
Cheesecake was originally made from yellow raw milk, that is, the milk taken after a cow has calved - the raw milk was used to make cheesecake. One of my favorite delicacies, if you have the opportunity to taste a real cheesecake, I recommend it. The cheesecake shown in the video is made in a completely different way.
I don't like marzipan either but I love princesstårta! It is really good, even the green marzipan. It tastes nothing like other marzipan stuff.
Thanks, Dwayne, for this overview of Swedish foods! Many of these I grew up with, being third-generation Swedish born in America, but some of those desserts you feature look heavenly. Now, ostkaka I could eat every day, and it's not as calorie-heavy as cheesecake. One thing or so about lutfisk: it is bland as anything you can imagine. It ties with tofu and poi, and we had to eat it during Christmas, in a cream gravy over mashed potatoes. Yeah, you can sorta imagine. Also lutfisk does not stink that badly; when it's cooked it no longe smells. But good luck and happy feasting in Sweden next year. Try to go to an authentic smörgåsbord! I got to when I was there.
Ryevita is a kind of knäckenröd, but the regular knäckebröd is so good. I love the Wasa sport knäckebröd. Mmmhhh ❤❤
In the old days Pittipanna was leftovers now you'll see store bought, dice potatoes, onions, beef, etc, topped with a fried egg or two and beetroot. But it is not severed as a pancake like Bubble and Squeak
Lutfisk is a dish you typically eat once a year, mostly at christmas time.
räksmörgås is white toast (untoasted) boiled eggs, mayo and shrimps...and squeezed lemon on Top
Lutfisk is something we eat at christmas, never ever heard of anyone eat it at any other day.. I dont like it but my grandmother do it every year and you eat it with potatoes and my mom loves when it is ALOT of white pepper in the sauce..
About lutfisk, it depends heavily on the region of Sweden as does surströmming.
I don't like marzipan either, so I bake my own semlor, i shred the almonds and mix it with whipped cream and fine grounded sugar. Smörgåstårta usually are made with seafood or with meat, I prefer to make my own so that I know what is in it, then the filling is mainly fish and shellfish and mayo, cream fraiche, a small amount of cream, cheese, vegetables. A lot from the Christmas table fits on a smörgåstårta, so I usually make one on the 25 of December.
These foods are very popular in Finland too.
Bubble and Squeak is more akin to Raggmunkar(pancake mix and potato hash browns and can have a lot more stuff tossed in) or Rårakor(thinly sliced potato, mixed with various vegetables, to make something like a hashbrown)
We have a lot of so called Left-Over dishes in Sweden and in Scandinavia altogether, I mean, Rusk om snusk, pyttipanna, raggmunk, råraka, etc...
I actually had inlagd sill (Pickled Herring) and knäckebröd for dinner today.
Hi!!
if you are going to Sweden at around christmas, then you need to check out and try a traditional Swedish julbord (christmas table) That will be a feast in traditional swedish foods.
The pancake is the dessert you eat after. "Ärtsoppa" is a pea soup. We also have this tradition in Finland.... Grävlax is my absolute favourite (or "graavilohi" in finnish)! I eat it almost once a week.
There’s a Swedish cafe in Bath apparently called Mjölk
The stinky fish is Surströmming , not pickled herring 😊
A tip for you if you do try the knäckebröd! get the ones that looks like pillows "rågrutor knäckebröd" and break the pillows into individual segments and put them in your yogurt and or sourmilk with some jam or berrys, i prefer something thats not very sweet because it tast very fresh! best breakfast cereals ever! if youre feeling sandwich spread butter on them and eat with chease maybe some kind of thinly sliced deli meat and cucumbers and possibly bellpeppars! My favourites are "delikatess knäckebröd", "frukost knäckebröd" and the "rågrutor knäckebröd"! Smörgåstråta is like the best food ever created! but for the love of god, dont put whip cream on it! some people do and its so wierd and uneatable! its suposed to be mayonase mixed with creme fraiche or cream chease! you can put a little bit of cream in the mix just to make it smoother but its not a desert!
Yeah the Marzipan on the Tårta is thick but the sponge is like a light Victoria sponge, you are not missing out dude
The pickled herring from the clip is not the same as the stinky "Surströmming". We have a bunch of varieties of "sill" pickled with different flavours and as she said they're a must-have during christmas or midsummers eve. You typically eat them on either knäckebröd or with boiled potatoes, butter or sourcream. My personal favourites are the standard "inlagd sill", "senapssill" (pickled in a mustard sauce) and a newcomer that is a mixture of wasabi and lime that I tried last christmas.
If there was a part 2 from the video he was watching, what would be on it?
We have "Tunnbrödrulle", a flatbread filled with hotdog, mashed potatoes and shrimpsallad.
That is our streetfood you know.
Every Festival I have ever been to have had either "Älgkebab" (Moose Kebab) or "Vildsvin Kebab" (Wild Boar Kebab) or both.
And of course the Pizzas, while Pizza it self is not from Sweden there are versions that you just can not order from other countries outside of Scandinavia.
Banana and Curry, Hamburger & CO Pizza, Sirloin with Sauce Bearnaise is just some of them.
Sandwich cake top layer is whipped cream and mayo. And yes, her pronounciation is quite near how we say it. But she wasn't even near with the pronounciation of ärtsoppa and pannkakor haha.
And no, we do NOT dip the pancakes in the soup! First we eat the soup, then then pancakes after. I have no idea where she got that weird dipping idea from!
I also noticed that when they talked about the pickled herring, they also showed fermented herring, which is something else. Not something we typically eat at a smörgåsbord. Fermented herring has its own place and its own parties due to it smelling sooooo much.
They are also wrong about the ostkaka. They said it's not as heavy as the american cheesecake, but I would argue it is heavier. It's very filling and just a little bit, served with whipped cream and raspberry jam, will keep you full for a while, that's for sure!
And to get things right about the semla: it is not split in half. You cut out the top of the bun, to create that hat. Putting half a bun on top would be too heavy with the whipped cream in between.
I have a few more tips on iconic Swedish foods and desserts you need to try (I'll skip the kanelbulle, since you already have a video out about it).
* Chokladbollar (chocolate balls)
* Falukorv med mos/makaroner (a special thick sausage served with mashed potatoes or macaronies)
* Dammsugare/punschrullar (a small sweet soft "cookie" rolled in marzipan, but the inside is made of sponge cake mixed with arrak and lemon juice. It's dipped in chocolate on two sides).
* Biff Rydberg (a more luxurious type of pyttipanna).
* Flygande Jacob (Flying Jacob. A chicken dish with bananas, peanuts and bacon, served with rice).
* Stekt sill med potatismos (fried herring with mashed potatoes. A classic with a long history).
* Kroppkakor (a thick potato bun type of thing with pork inside. Served with lingonberries and butter).
* Pitepalt (kind of like kroppkakor, but made differently. Also served with lingonberries and butter).
* Kalops (a meat stew we often have in the fall and winter. Can be done with both beef and wild meat).
* Ägg- och kaviarmacka. (Egg and kaviar sandwich. The kaviar is not like caviar at all. We have this thing called Kalles Kaviar, which is a staple in most people's homes. The bread is typically a soft rye bread or knäckebröd topped with sliced boiled eggs and kaviar on top).
* Kåldolmar (ground beef wrapped in cabbage).
* Renskavsgryta (thin deer meat in a stew. Served with boiled potatoes and of course lingonberries.)
* Fläskpannkaka (pork sheet tray pancakes. Mainly a sheet tray pancake with pork or bacon in it).
* Fläsklägg med rotmos (Pork knuckle with mashed vegetables. The mash contains of potatoes, carrots, rutabaga and parsnip).
* Lussebullar/lussekatter (traditional Swedish Christmas saffron buns).
* Midsommartårta (midsummer's cake. A cream cake with strawberries on top, typically eaten on Midsummer's eve).
I have lots more to put to this list, but I bet this list would be too long then haha.
Yellow peasoup( often with pieces of salted pigbelly )and thin pancakes for desert. I have never seen anyone dip the pancakes in the soup. I live in Sweden.