Semla: The Swedish pastry that killed a king
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- čas přidán 12. 06. 2024
- Do you fast from time to time? It's a tradition in many religions to abstain from certain foods or even to stop eating and drinking altogether, as Muslims do during Ramadan. Before the first day of Lent in Sweden, Christians used to eat sweet little pastries called semlor. A semla is a bun filled with almond paste and whipped cream. It is the perfect pastry for pigging out before Lent. Legend has it that one Swedish king once had a few too many... So let's get to the bottom of the story of the semla and the fate of the Swedish king.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:38 A dead King
01:50 How Semlor are made
02:38 Fasting traditions
03:46 Sweden’s love for Semla
04:19 Outro
CREDITS
Report: Gönna Ketels
Camera: Neven Hillebrands
Edit: Andreas Hyronimus
Supervising editor: Ruben Kalus
#semla #sweden #pastry
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What's the sweet or pastry you can't resist? 😉
Semla… I’m a bit biased. 😏 But also cannoli from Sicily and Levantine sweets, such as Halawet el-jeben.
Danish pastry has some good ones like kanelstang (cinamonstik) that is way better than the Semla.
dammsugare
Semla is a lifestyle! It truly brightens the day when the weather is all cold, wet and gloomy.
The name semla is a loan word from German Semmel, originally deriving from the Latin simila, meaning 'flour', itself a borrowing from Greek σεμίδαλις (semidalis), "groats", which was the name used for the finest quality wheat flour or semolina.
That's actually not true at all... Semolina and Semmel actually derives from the Swedish pastry called Semla.
@@GrandiosoOak Why would you even bother lying about something that's so easily fact checked?
@@derimmerlugt3032 What do you mean? Semla is ancient and the base for many of our modern day flour based foods. Examples such as the Hamburger Bun and Italian Biscotti wouldn't exist without it.
@@GrandiosoOak [ citation needed ]
@@derimmerlugt3032 do you have any citations supporting your bogus claims?
This is a simple yet fantastic pastry.
The chef is like making an art 🍰👨🏻🍳 ❤2:19
We have the same in Norway, but its usually with cream and jam. We call it fastelavnsbolle since we eat it at Fastelavn. (Fasten abend)
I'm from Denmark and worked a couple of years in Sweden and they make it with quite a hard/though bun, it's not soft and more bread like. The filling makes it sweeter, but it's still a strange combination. It reminds me more of a bagel actually. The Danish fastelavnsbolle is much more soft, same goes for the German Berliner or similarities.
Got to try it one day!
Semlor is the ultimate expression of baking artistry.
The reason why Big Mom go nuts after semlas
One Piece fans: Semla thats familiar. Where have I heard that mentioned before?
..oh..wait.. oh..god..oh no 😱
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Linlin wants more..🔥🔥😁
@@DWFood R.I.P. Chief Beardfall, slán leat...
If Wano was One Piece version of Japan, than would Elbaf be One Piece version of Sweden or the every Nordic countries together?
The giants are based of jötunn.
Their prince is named after Norse god of trickster.
we are going to die in the end, eating too much semla is only one way out of thousand ways to die, so don't blame it on the food 😂
With all that whipped cream, the king probably had a heart attack. He did eat 14 of them. I never heard of semlas. There are a few Swedish bakeries in Chicago, I will have to try it.
عرض ادب
بسیار عالی؛ طعمش را می توان براحتی احساس کرد
Having this after having Eisbein is dang good comfort guilty pleasure..
I like the chef,😊
mmm whipped cream is so simple but wonderful 🙂
...is that Iskall85 at :33 ?
Reminds me of Paris brest . Looks so good
You are actually not supposed to put that much wiped cream on them, they should look a bit more squat.
If it is good enough for a king...
☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️😍😍😍
"we eat as much as we can......and try to stay alive" that's right
Semla didn't kill the King. His lack of control did, hence the indigestion. 😂
Abdolutely..😊
your majesty have another....it's wafer thin! 🙂
This must have been produced in Germany - no royalities so obsessed with them
it must be strange living a life where no one can tell you no. you'd have to develop your own self control...or have no control at all. (i guess that's why people ended up having their heads chopped off)
the national dish in Sweden in´s kebab
Som svensk och stockholmare, semla . . Föredrar Napoleon alt Budapest stubbe.
Almonds 🤔 no one thought that it might be cyanide?
Isn't that mostly an issue with bitter almonds, not so much sweet almonds?
14 Semla ?! 😂😂😂
Swedish zemmel
Ah yes the problems of the first world