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Swedish Chanterelle Mushroom Pate

Submitted by: Anne-Marie Bullis
Home Town: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Living In: Håcksvik, Västra Götalands, Sweden
Golden chanterelle mushrooms and ground pork combine to create this deliciously rich pate. 

Swedish Apple Cake

Submitted by: LEM-n-JEM
In a delectably moist cake with Swedish heritage, fresh, chopped apples and walnuts are spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg under a brown sugar topping. 

Swedish Toscas (Swedish Almond Tarts)

Submitted by: NAPOLIMOM
Home Town: Seattle, Washington, USA
Living In: Coronado, California, USA
Buttery little tarts made in a muffin tin are filled with a brown sugar-almond mixture enhanced by a touch of cream. 

Swedish Christmas Glogg

Submitted by: MYLEEN
Home Town: Houston, Texas, USA
Living In: Austin, Texas, USA
Scandinavians warm chilly nights around Christmastime and after skiing with steaming glasses or cups of glogg, a spiced, red wine-based hot punch seasoned with cinnamon sticks and whole cloves. 

Traditional Swedish Pepparkakor

Submitted by: Eal
Paper-thin and spicy, these cookies are a beloved Swedish Christmas tradition. Thoroughly chilling the dough before rolling it out, and dusting cookie cutters with flour will make the cut-out process easier. 

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Christmas Lefse

Submitted by: heartymncook
Home Town: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Living In: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
This is a Norwegian-style lefse, that our family makes together every Christmas Eve morning. The potato dough is refrigerated overnight to make the lefse more tender. Delicious spread with butter and either white sugar or brown sugar! 

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Festive Jule Kaga

Submitted by: Nicole Demers
My family makes this recipe at Christmas. Grandma likes to add peel and cherries and all manner of strange things. My mother makes it the traditional way, with currants. I personally think it only tastes good at Christmas time. 

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Pepparkakor

Submitted by: Mill City Wini
This recipe for Swedish Christmas cookies is seasoned with cinnamon, ginger, allspice, and cloves. 

Swedish Chocolate Balls (or Coconut Balls)

Submitted by: AngelicaS
A long-time favorite in Sweden, and a treat all Swedish children learn to make as one of their first cooking projects, these no-bake chocolate morsels combine rolled oats with sugar, cocoa, butter or margarine, coffee and melted chocolate. Rolled in coconut flakes, they're ready to pop in your mouth. 

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Scandinavian-Style Rice Porridge

Submitted by: MaryBeth B
Rice slowly cooked in milk with unsalted butter becomes extra creamy and tender while adding cardamom, sugar, and a topping of melted butter make this porridge real Scandinavian comfort food. 

Finnish-American Flatbread

Submitted by: 2CHAE
Home Town: Frazee, Minnesota, USA
A very delicious Finnish flatbread made with wheat and rye flours. Cream of rye cereal can be used in place of the rye flour if coarse ground is not available. 

Potato Klubb (Norwegian Potato Dumplings)

Submitted by: Vickie
Potato dumplings stuffed with a cube of ham are a specialty of the Trondelag region around Trondheim, Norway. Also enjoyed by many Norwegian-American families, the dumplings are boiled and traditionally served whole with melted butter, crispy bacon pieces, and stewed peas, or sliced and fried. 

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Dansk Aebleskiver (Danish Doughnuts)

Submitted by: Luanne
Cooked in a special cast iron or electric griddle with seven to nine cups, these traditional Danish dumplings are round, doughnut-like pastries dusted with confectioners' sugar and eaten with a dollop of raspberry or strawberry jam. 

Danish Peppernut Christmas Cookies (Pebernodder)

Submitted by: Milk Teeth
Living In: Eugene, Oregon, USA
Spicy cookies are a beloved Christmas treat in Denmark and throughout Scandinavia where expensive spices were traditionally reserved for special holiday foods. These tiny (nut-free) butter cookies burst with flavor from cardamom, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves, 

Orange Cardamom Krumkake

Submitted by: Cait
Living In: Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Delicate, cardamom-flavored cookie cones are a traditional favorite in Norway, especially at Christmas time. This version is enhanced with orange zest, ginger, and cinnamon to complement the cardamom. 

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Swedish Cream with Summer Berries

Submitted by: HOONDE
Sweetened sour cream flavored with orange liqueur is blended with warm, heavy cream to make a heavenly potion to pair with various fresh summer berries. 

Knaakkebrod or Nakkileipa (Scandinavian-Style Rye Crisp Bread)

Submitted by: leopardstripes
Home Town: Blaine, Washington, USA
Living In: Boise, Idaho, USA
Crisp rye breads are traditional throughout Scandinavia because rye has a short growing season suitable to far north, and flat breads or crackers store well during long winters. Enjoy this adaptation topped with slices of Norwegian Jarlsberg cheese or Finnish Lappi cheese. 

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Swedish Klimp

Submitted by: Anne-Marie Bullis
Home Town: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Living In: Håcksvik, Västra Götalands, Sweden
A simple comfort food, klimp are small dumplings added to a soup or stew. This recipe comes from Aunt Berta in Northern Sweden who makes them every time we visit her. 

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Semlor (Semla)

Submitted by: ZONIGUANA
Home Town: Wiesbaden, Hessen, Germany
Living In: Enosburg Falls, Vermont, USA
These Swedish marzipan and whipped cream filled cardamom buns are traditionally served on Fat Tuesday. Nowadays they are happily eaten as often as they can be found. We love that these are not too sweet, and are just big enough. 

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Danish Oven Pancake (Aeggekage)

Submitted by: WOLSELEY
Home Town: Enslev, Midtjylland, Denmark
Living In: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
An Aeggekage is a traditional Danish oven pancake, usually served as a buffet item or as a dessert for a family holiday meal. It is a light, cake-like dish that is not too sweet and absolutely delicious with fresh seasonal berries and fresh whipped cream! (Think of it as a sweetened Yorkshire pudding). 

 
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