BARK BREAD & TAR CANDY - Reviewing Interesting Foods in Finland
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- BARK BREAD & TAR CANDY - Reviewing Interesting Foods in Finland
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What would you put on your bark bread?
More bark because the more the merrier
That Russian pine cone jam
Hard boiled eggs and kaviar! Not the black fish eggs, but the pink fish eggs. A popular breakfast in Sweden.
tomato paste, maybe some comte cheese
Hummus, mackerel, and hot sauce.
Finland has wisdom of old:
"If sauna, alcohol or tar don't help, it is deadly."
"If sauna, liquor and tar won't help, the disease is fatal"
Tar is wood sap extracted from roots saturated with sap, the way you extract it is by heating the roots up and then naturally the sap will come out- or it's mechanically squeezed while the roots are hot. The "smoky" and "burnt" taste comes from that process, I don't like the taste either but it's one of those "hard times" traditional foods- same with the bark bread.
Fascinating. Rewatching this I realized I didn't even know what tar was, thanks for the explanation.
Tar is not sap, it's a hydrocarbon produced by distilling wood, bark and roots.
In New England we have Pine Sap Gum. Its sweetened, and then dried pine sap. My Grandfather just used to pick the dried sap from the pine trees, and chew on it like gum. As a New Englander I respect the Finnish people. They understand what a cold winter is.
@@TheJerry834
It depends, my friend.
Tar is a generic term that encompasses viscous, sticky and usually black substances.
In the U.S. we specify what kind of tar by affixing the type. I.E. pine tar, roofing tar, etc.
@@TheJerry834 - We made tar in school when I was a kid. We built the tar miln in the forest by the school (in the south of Norway). I remember us kids thought it was a lot of fun. Doing this was common practice here in the old days, when they used tar on the houses and boats (to protect the wood from rot), like we use paint today.
"Most people would prefer this to not have wood in it." Yeah.
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Its basically just fibre. Good for you, I guess. Plenty of veggies have high fibre.
@@OsirusHandle There is lots of sugars in the phloem that is used for making bark bread. It's an old Sami tradition the used the layer between the bark and wood (Phloem) from scotch pine.
I know, I would never think this would exist.
I used to chew on that inner bark whan i was a little child, so i can imagine this is what people used before there was reffined or cane sugar easily available in the Nord and elsewhere.
I actually really like the flavor of tar. My dad knew a guy who produced tar by himself, I got to taste it pure. Super intense. My favorite tar flavored thing is tar mustard, it is really good. I can't eat fish but my friend says that vendace in tar marinade is the best thing ever.
Also tar is used in sauna scents. You put a few drops of it in the water you throw on sauna stove.
I think you would like Retsina wine from Greece.
Thanks for sharing this story👍
Wow, interesting! Had no idea that tar can be eaten.
@@SambodhiBhattacharyya0
In small amonths, but reffined industrial turpentine is carcinogene as i heard.
I want to try tar mustard...
I come from a long line of roofers and was pretty excited to see tar on the menu. Tar used to be the common chew substitute on the job / or bubble gum for kids. VERY popular in the 20's-30's.
It's pretty much always been considered safe when the tar was pure.
Tar nowadays (industrial use since the 70s - 80's) is not actually *tar* though - it's just black mystery cancer goo for the same usage.
@@UCKY5 more than likely it did. Dental health wasn't a prime thought for those who chewed tobacco or kids wanting to "be like paw" chewing away on jobsites while stoking the kettle at 10yrs old.
(I never did buy the "back when it was pure" my grandfather talks about though - then again he's in the upper 90s and fit as a fiddle - maybe that's the secret 😂)
"mystery cancer goo"
There's no mystery.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_tar
Bark bread reminds me of that one william osman video where he puts increasing amounts of sawdust in rice krispies treats to see what amount people notice it at
I love that episode. Lol
love all the history you explain behind the foods you review : )
Glad you enjoy it!
Knäckebröd (crispbread) is still very popular i Nordic countries. I don't know if it's also popular in other countries. Most are without any bark added though. Not very nice on it's own, but goes very well with creamy toppings. Like cheese & ham, hummus, räksallad (don't know the English word, shrimp mixed with crème fraiche and herbs), eggs etc. Nice crunch and something creamy so it doesn't become to dry.
Honestly never tried tar candy. But think I will stay away from it xD
Isnt this the bread they eat that stinky fermented canned fish with
You don't know where it is eaten. Take a land in Europe, Russia, the baltic states or the arabic countries, they eat it. Goat cheese or cow cheese is a combination I can recommend. It goes well with any creamy cheese, but can also be eaten with beef, which makes it great. Most countries don't add the sawdust though...
Knäckebrot as it's called here is also quite popular in germany. But it mostly comes in the form of small rectangles instead of a big circle like the one in the video
@Lassi Kinnunen Liversausage is great, the kind we have in Germany is like a patee too.
@@almostliterally593 no, usually use a softer variant for it in order to roll it up!
My grandmother eat bark bread as a child here in Sweden during the war, I think. You usually put butter on it though with cheese or ham if you had it.
I can pretty much garantee that everyone watching this in the US has eaten something with sawdust as a filler. It's particularly common among low calorie breads and granola bars, but it finds its way into a bunch of places.
The magical words that mean "sawdust" without saying it on the package are "cellulose powder." It could technically mean other things, but it doesn't. It's just bleached sawdust. Removes the wood flavor.
It's often referred to as "cellulose gum", as well. A lot of low/no calorie drinks use it to mimic the smooth and weighty texture of oil-suspensions like creme.
@PAUL GARCIA I refuse to buy the wood dust parmesan. Shredded is just so much nicer 👍🏼
Cellulose =/= wood. Wood is lignin. Cellulose products have wide range of uses in food and cosmetics as binders, thickeners, and gelling agents.
@@chrisdieguez1950 www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/07/10/329767647/from-mcdonalds-to-organic-valley-youre-probably-eating-wood-pulp
@@chrisdieguez1950 Wood is both cellulose and lignin. Food usages of lignin are rare, but there have been periodic efforts to find more uses for it. I'm curious as to the lignin content of the cracker WE ate. I don't think the cambium is high in lignin. There are trees where people even just boil the cambium and eat it directly. It's called "tree bacon", lol.
Finnish curiosity shop having a slow day.
Jared enters said shop.
The shop: " ladies and gentlemen we got him."
haha the lady selling the bark bread was very pleased
Is that the same place that sells salmiak vodka ?
@@Call-me-Al You can buy salmiak vodka at literally any liquor store in Finland
@@poika22 fantastic! I will have to visit Finland some day.
I love tar flavored candies, those Leijonas are really good!
also Tar Devil's (Tervapirut)
havent hade thoes in years but then again thay are hard to comeby in my local stores (sweden but with a healthy finnish poulation in the area)
Tastes great dissolved in vodka
@@antcommander1367 Those are the best candies ever
Not really wood dust or bark. The cambium layer of many trees is edible. It has been used as food likely before wheat ever existed.
I was going to say this as well. Cambium is very nutritious, and it is much more digestible than actual bark.
back in the days early 90's when I was in junior high school in Kokkola Finland... there was one Swedish teacher who hated the smell of Terva Leijona... that was the reason why students in her classes ate only Terva Leijona candy or similar tar candy 😅 Terva Leijona tastes amazing, it's one of my favorite candies 👌😋
Europe: Introduces the basis for the original government oversight food inspection system to make sure bakers don't bulk up bread with filler like saw dust
*16th century Finnish* : "You guys don't put saw dust in your bread?"
Welll.... it's better than not eating anything.
translations for products and brands in this video
Skogs Knäcke: (Swedish) Forests crispbread (my swedish isn't perfect)
Leijona: Lion
Terva Lakritsi: Tar Liqourice
It would be cool to see you do a tree foraging video and eat the cambium, drink the needle tea, and even sap of some trees! Maybe juniper berries & pine nuts? Could be interesting!
You shoud try the berry called mesimarja/arctic raspberry.
That bread is from Sweden. 'Skogs Knäcke med bark och enbär från härjedalen' literally 'Forest crispbread with bark and juniper berries from härjedalen' Härjedalen is a province in Sweden. And I love Leijona!
Pettu was not actually made from "saw dust" but from the layer between the bark and the wood called "nila" in Finnish, which is the part of wood that circulates nutrients from the leaves to the roots.
Butter! You need butter for the bark bread! 🙂
Is reindeer butter a thing there? I feel like only that would be fully appropriate.
@@TheFloatingSheep The Sami people probably made reindeer butter at some point but I doubt that it's a thing these days. And if it is, it'll be a very local specialty to the northern parts of scandinavia. Maybe you can have it at some gourmet restaurant somewhere.
@@Hin_Håle Next time Santa's in town I'll try milking his reindeer, and make some butter.
@@TheFloatingSheep Don't milk the male ones...
I've always wanted to try bark bread. My grandmother told me they had to make it during the war and she told me it tasted like shit, they probably had to use a lot of bark. Her parents even had to trick her to eat her own dog, poor woman :(
That's terrible. Where is your grandmother from?
The Tervaleijona you ate does not contain ammonium chloride, the cough-drop taste comes probably from the tar flavour mixed with liquorice extract. There is a 'salmiakki' aka ammonium chloride version of the Tervaleijona, but you ate the liquorice ('lakritsi') variation. If you ever come across 'Salmiakkipulveri' or 'Salmiakkijauhe' in finnish shops, I would recommend giving it a try. While both salmiakki and cough drops do contain ammonium chloride, salmiakki is not supposed to taste like cough drops but rather an intense mix of sweet and salty and the salmiakki powders are imo the best way to taste that difference.
Fun fact: salmiak powder (Ammonium chloride) is fantastic to gargle with in water when you have a lot of phlegm in your throat. It's basically why us here got addicted to the stuff: it was a big part of cough remedies and cough drops, together with licorice, and then we just got so used to the flavour we wanted it even when we weren't sick.
Also, apparently vets prescribe ammonium chloride to goats if they have kidney stones they need to dissolve.
I don't think salmiakki version exists anymore. It's not listed on the manufacturer's website, and I've been looking for them for maybe 5 years now. Used to be one of my favorite candies.
Just FYI he bark bread uses the cambium/phloem layers of tree bark (they transport nutrients basically) and is essentially the only part of the tree that isn't just straight up indigestible cellulose. Even then it was thought of as just a filler.
PS: tar syrup in coffee is surprisingly good
"Even then it was thought of as just a filler."
But, despite what they thought, you do get at least vitamins and minerals from it. Not sure about energy.
@@seneca983 1/4 of energy of rye flour. Also harmful substances.
@@McSlobo "1/4 of energy of rye flour"
That's still plenty more than "just a filler". It would matter a lot for survival in famine times.
Also that bread was vital well into the 1800s in Sweden and Finland. When there were bouts of shortages and periods of starvation people would make this and other not so tasty foods to survive. And there would be a high amount of bark in the bread.
I can definitely see the Leijona candy be something you need to have a certain background to enjoy. Personally, being from northern Sweden, being outside in the woods, sitting around a campfire is something that's been a huge part of growing up for me. The candy really brings some of that feeling of the wilderness straight into your mouth, along with liking licorice(which it does contain) like many people up here, it's something I really enjoy personally, even though it is a very special kind of taste.
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As a Finn I love those tar candies. I can't explain why, the taste is just really good to me.
Watching this made me crave restaurant Harald's bark- and tar ice cream, and want to hunt down spruce ice cream made by Suomen jäätelö. All of them are so delicious.
It is amazing how well you have found the most Finnish things there are. I've never had or tasted Pettuleipä (bark bread) but that is totally part of the Finnish national legend that is tought ti us in schools. But leijonapastillit are definitely something I crave at times :) There are not that many Finns commenting on your videos, but I've followed your journey couple of years now and was super confused/happy that you ended up in Finland on your travels :D
I've been told the bread is not that good for you since the body is unable to digest it. It can just stay and build up in your digestion system.
And I guess it is also debatable if tar is good for you. EU has a directive on tar that forbids its use, but Finland got an exeption from that because we simply LOVE to put tar on litteraly everything (candy, soap, boats etc). Can it cause cancer? Maybe. Do we just love the smell and don't care? Absolutely.
They used to make flour from a thin layer of starchy bark beneath the outer layer of bark. I think this is what it is based on.
I love those tar candies. 😊
But I can understand that it's an acquired taste. The candies have salmiakki in them in addition to the tar, which is why you tasted the ammonium chloride. Of course I - like many Finns - love salmiakki as well.
I think a part of what makes the taste of those tar candies good to many Finns is that the smell of tar is often associated with sauna - there's even shampoo with tar-fragrance. My grandmother used to have that tar shampoo in the washing room of her sauna (she actually had two saunas - one a very old wood fire warmed sauna, and one smaller electric sauna). So the smell is very familiar and associated with good memories, with me, and I bet many other Finns. And, as you know, smell is a big part of taste.
While I do not like tar candy, I do LOVE tar ice cream. It is like butterscotch ice cream but it has a smoky and earthy after taste to it. Kinda like maple syrup but stronger and less sweet. If you're still in finland or will visit again, I would suggest visiting Viking Restaurant Harald. They have a few locations across Finland. Very good food made out of somewhat unusual ingredients, such as berries, small and big game, mushrooms, and fish.
Oh man I wish I visited that shop. I could have made a tar and bark bread ice cream sandwich!
I live in Argentina and once, in a local fair, found sweetened edible wood: literal chunks of wood with a syrupy "marinade"! It was very sweet, with a nice bite to it. Flavourwise: quite woody and tar-y but in a good way 🧃
I want to clarify in saying that the under-bark of a tree is not actually wood, but cambium, which people have survived off of for centuries, particularly certain Native American tribes. I’ve heard a few ways to make it more palatable such as frying it in animal fat, but at the end of the day yeah it’s still only especially useful if you’re starving in the woods. I would’ve never thought to use it in bread. Great video!
That bark bread you bought is apparently from the Härjedalen province in Sweden. I looked it up, and "Skogsknäcke" is produced in a small place called Lillhärdal.
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YT recommendations caused me to fall backwards into your videos, and I am now a man obsessed. Thank you for your service, Weird Fruit Video Guy.
I'd like to try the tar, I love that french hard non-sweet liquorish layers, and I like toast.
Terva Leijona is one of my favourite candies. Traditionally it has been used a lot by smokers or alcoholics, as it masks other odors so well :) It has quite a strong smoky tar taste and definitely not everyone is going to like it. I would say that people who like smoked food or smoky whiskies can enjoy this candy a lot.
They made bark bread here in Norway 🇳🇴 during WW2, since they didn’t have enough flour. So they used bark to stretch the flour. But when they no longer had to eat it, they stopped making it! ☺️
I would love to taste that bread. I love the smell of boiling tar.
I think the bark bread is made of the inner bark of pine. Which is dried and roasted before it is ground and mixt in with the flour
Here in CA, we call the oil that bubbles up from the ground and gets stuck on our feet at the beach “Tar”. I was like “no way” when you said they were making food out of it. Glad these comments cleared things up for me or I would have thought you were buying a ticket to cancer town.
Leijona is suuuper, always bought them on the ferries to Finland, then in handy sheet metal boxes. A few years ago i introduced them to one of the blenders of Morrison Bowmore, i was a bit surprised...Having the peaty whiskeys they do, he did not appreciate it too much 🤣
What a great invention touch on food! Amazing tips.
Tervalakritsi means tar liqourice, Leijona also has pure tar candies. And you can buy tar menthol candies from apotecharies and tar lollipops from different places like Arktos at Rovaniemi. Btw, those candies you rasted where one me favourite as wee kid!
It's called crispbread in English. Very common in Scandinavia. But not normally with wood in it. But it's saw dust you are eating, but the inner bark, and it is actually eatable
i've always wanted to try bark bread. something about the idea of looking at a tree and going "wait i can eat that??"
Bark bread is called "pettuleipä" where my parents grew up in Finland. My grandmom claimed she had to eat is as a child, but I'm not sure times really were that bad... For my own part, I'd rather eat proper crispbread. 😁
Any cracker bread can be rehydrated with a damp towel wrapped around it, or steam.
They can also be crumbled into soups.
Tervapiru is my favorite candy, it's tar candy that is a lot softer than those pastilles and with stronger tar flavour in my opinion.
Both of these are common in Sweden, and I presume, in the rest of the Nordics. I am from the far-north of Sweden and I have, however, not seen them since moving south.
Butter and a mild cheese would be really nice on it. A cup of coffee or tea goes really nice with that as well
I remember seeing something years ago about a country in Europe that was using pulp left over from pulp mills as an ingredient in a margarine type product. That's all the context I remember, too.
With stories like these, I've come to just associate the whole of Europe as a continent united in finding imaginative ways to eat trees.
Heres an idea:
Nettle soup, with a side of bark bread coated in wood pulp margarine.
Of course, there's also tar-flavoured soda. A certain British CZcamsr with a penchant to sample massively out-of-date foodstuff has tried it on their "extra" channel.
On the topic of regional peculiarities, I have no idea if you're into eating/baking cinnamon rolls or similar buns, but the dough here (Nordic countries) is (usually?) flavoured with cardamom. If you visited a cafe on your trip, you may have noticed it.
Damn you always find a lot of interesting stuff and it's really interesting to see it
I like the smoky taste of toast charred on the grill, so I might like the tar candy... maybe...? Hmm...
Wow!!! Great Video. Thank You.
the holes in that bread are actually from a process called docking, you do it to the bottom of pies so they don't puff up, I'm assuming that's why they're in this bread, too.
Hard bread is often or almost always used as a side dish to traditional meals all across Scandinavia.
Simply put, this sort of bread is not to be eaten as a stand alone item. Either you just put some butter on it and enjoy as part of your meal. But if you want a quick and easy snack, then some hard bread and a cup of coffee will do nice. Then add a slice of ham or cheese, or any other toppings you might like, to your hard bread. But in fact, butter is often enough.
On a personal level I eat a lot of hard bread, but none with bark added. My preferred variety is Wasa Husman, a hard bread where the only ingredients are flour made from whole grains of rye, yeast and salt (and an amount of water to make it into a dough).
Dry and crumbly stuff for sure, but can be stored indefinitely I imagine. And it is widely available here in Sweden.
"How much sawdust can you put in bread before people notice?"
Yeah.. i also have some scientific question like their wood nutrients or something..
@@rifwann There's some minimal amount of nutrients, but I'm not sure how much our bodies would really be able to extract considering they can't actually break down the cellulose and lignin which encase most of the nutrients. I suppose the only nutrients you might get are the ones which leaked out when the wood got chopped up, any others being encased in cells.
Quite a lot actually.. That is why at one point and time during the medieval period they had to put laws into effect in what can be labeled as bread because bakers would cut their bread with different things (including saw dust) just to make their flour last longer.. Specially during hard times when there were crop failures.
A recent UK lawsuit was brought against Subway bread for not being bread ... too much sugar and not enough flour.
i love this channel just for how informative you are about the taste of these things! it allows us viewers to live vicariously through your videos
Try tar icecream if you ever get to visit Finland again. It is so good with cloudberry jam.
“It has a taste......” I thought you were just gonna stop there with the tar candies 😂
The holes in the bread is there to help keep it from forming bubbles
There are a lot of pine trees with an edible cambium (growing) layer.
I love terva leijona!
I think I'd be good with the bark bread. Probably with you on the tar candy, though I've never tried either. I like Swedish Knäkebröd, which is just crisp rye bread, very tasty.
Also how you described it as woody reminded me of Irish poitín, which is basically un-aged whiskey, and it tasted to me like birch wood. Birch is often used for wooden spoons and the like, because it doesn't impart flavours to the food, but if you just suck on a stick of birch, you get a taste from it. The wood smells nice when you cut it or burn it. It has a flavour, but it doesn't overpower the flavours in your food when you cook with it. Popsicle sticks are usually made of birch.
You should try bitter bean and jengkol or jering, its fruits that always be made into food or gourmet
You can make bread with 100% inner pine bark. Though it would probably be better half and half with grain/ seed flour lol but if it's all you got it'll taste like the best thing you've ever tasted!
I really love tar candy, but I'm a huge fan of smoked stuff, especially beer.
Fiber is known as processed cellulose 1970's fiber enrich bread. Also used in WW2 prison food as well.
Its not a cracker its a type of hard bread and it is still extremely popular in both finland and sweden and is usually eaten alongside staple foods with butter and cheese or just plain.
To be fair, all knäckebröd tastes a little like wood. The more, the better, I say!
Oh, btw: that was swedish bark bread.
The ladder in the background is so interesting and I wanna know where it leads!
A loft with a bed(room) in it. This is a pretty standard configuration for rentable cabins in Lapland.
I've had tar candy as a kid in ND. I wouldn't say I liked it, but I liked it better than licorice. You're right that it's smoky, and to me has a milder flavor.
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Thanks! Lots more on the way.
Anyone else experiencing ASMR from this video? Sooo relaxing.
This Really should have been 7 hours of me tapping that bark bread....
Anything with
tar for me, yes please! And that candy on particular is delicious.
I'd love to try the bark bread. I can be picky with bread mainly the crust part but I enjoy dryer breads. I might enjoy that bark bread. I will have to see if they have it on Amazon. I may try the tar candy but your description of the taste somewhat deterred me but I am still very curious. I enjoy trying new things. I wish I could travel like you just to try fruits and vegetables and nuts around the world. That would be awesome.
A Finnish friend of mine send me those tar candies and I like them!
To me, the flavour is very reminiscent of fragrant log fires, and transports me to medieval open-air museums and the woodsy (and slightly musty) smell of traditional buildings and fires in open hearths.
It is definitely a unique flavour, not really a sweet in the traditional sense.
I like tar flavored stuff. I remember tar ice cream being my favorite flavor one summer. I just like the strong smoky aroma which is more deep and complex than any other smoke aroma I've tasted. I like the way it tastes and smells when you breathe through your nose while eating it. As a disclaimer I do like ammonium chloride too.
Love you channel. Thank for sharing you culinary experiences with us
We have/had some years ago wood jam, bonbons and alfajores (big sandwich cookies) in Argentina. I could never find them :-(. They were made with the wood of a certain tree species (that was originally consumed by indigenous peoples) boiled for three days.
"Yacaratiá" (jacaratia spinosa) was the tree. A google image search shows packs of candied wood. I *need* to try it!
Sounds absolutely delicious
Great video! Thanks!
I love the pine resin flavour of the Terva.
I would be interested in trying the Bark Bread with a very creamy cheese, and perhaps Lingonberry jam.
It depends the occasion. Of course we eat tree bark when we have to. It is not a preferred food , and yes we spice our mush and latkes flatbreads with seeds . It is not the point.
Okay. Tar candy is the best thing EVER. I could eat a few of those packs in one sitting!
I remember hearing stories about my ancestors in Norway eating bark bread during the famine in the early 1800s caused in part by the Napoleonic Wars. I'd never seen it though, so it's interesting to see what a modern version of it is like.
Your channel is the reason why I decided to expiriement with my cuisine
these both seem like something i would LOVE, also really want to try that tar jam bark bread combo
I would have had it with some good fresh pine needle tea, which i like a lot
I really like tar candy like the Leijona. Also we had tar lemonade in stores a few years back and that was okay-ish too. There is also of course tar vodka. It is kinda like with salmiakki, it is such a strong and kinda unique flavour, an acquired taste I guess. I like that it tastes smoky but also fresh.
I wanna see matzah ball soup made out of that wood bread
I feel like that bark bread just needs the right dip to be perfect.
The bark break sounds delicious to me. Juniper and a hint of sawdust? Sounds like it tastes like camping.
Tar candy is getting hard to come by in Sweden, but I used to love it as a kid. As an adult I also love smokey Islay whisky. Go figure.
Sometime around 1976 a bread came out in the U.S. that was marketed as a diet bread. I don't recall it's name, unfortunately. I used to buy it, and it was delicious. But the FDA didn't like the fact that one of it's ingredients was cellulose. The news of the day kept saying it had "sawdust" in it. Since cellulose comes from many plant sources, it is unclear whether it came from trees or plants. The FDA ordered it off the market as not being fit for human consumption. I was very disappointed.
I've always liked the tar flavored candies. One thing I've also liked was this sauce/dressing with tar and mustard flavor I've seen in some supermarkets. I've not seen it in years, though. :(