Desserts

The Finns & Desserts

Finns are very proud of their berries. The strawberries are juicy and sweet. Blueberries are tasty and plenty. Lingonberries are firm and crisp.

No surprise that many desserts make usage of those berries from the garden or forest.

Sometimes the lines between soup, dessert and porridge becomes blurred. But not all deserts are berry based, you will also find here rice, apples and other ingredients. Finnish deserts are not that sweet in general compared to e.g. southern intalian or french deserts.

Desserts

Orange Rice - Appelsiiniriisi

In the 60ties the health wave and low fat movement had not yet kicked in. Many “luxury” ingredients like rice and oranges were now affordable to the general population. This kind of desert was served for example at Christmas. The large movement from the countryside to the cities took off and with that people were buying their food from shops and were no longe producing a large part of their food themselves. The recipe below is from Riitta Mustonen “food memories” and it was h

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Apr 62 min read

Blueberry Soup - Mustikkakiisselli / Mustikkasoppa

Finns tend to eat their lunch between 11-12, so they get hungry at 17.00 and have then their dinner. For that reason, they eat a small “snack” called iltapala (evening piece) before they go to bed. Blueberry soup is a typical snack, eaten before going to bed or as an in-between snack. Sometimes it is eaten as a desert. If you can find forest blueberries go for those. The cultivated blueberries are ok, but just no the same taste. In Finland blueberry picking is quite common in

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Mar 81 min read

Pancakes - Pannukakku

The Finnish pancake is baked on an oven tray and served with strawberry yam and cream. Finnish strawberries are sold in summertime at market squares or in front of larger supermarkets. They are pricy, but they taste really tasty. You can find pancakes in many lunch places on Thursday as a desert for the classical pea soup. Ingredients: 3 Eggs 8 dl Milk 4 dl Flour 1 tsp Baking Powder ½ dl Sugar 1 tsp Vanilja Sugar 1/3 tsp Salt ½ Oil or melted butter Instructions: Mix eggs an

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Jan 251 min read