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Ruisleipa-Finnish Rye Bread
Ingredients
1
cup stone ground dark rye flour (this is available at whole foods)
1
1/4 cups all-purpose flour
2
tablespoons baking powder
1
teaspoon salt
5
tablespoons unsalted butter at room temperature
1
cup buttermilk ( or add 1 tablespoon of fresh lemon juice to regular whole milk
to make your own)
1
teaspoon whole fennel seeds (optional)
2
large eggs
Directions
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Lightly grease a loaf pan with butter or Crisco.
In a mixing bowl, combine flour and salt.
Add Buttermilk, butter, and eggs and whisk slowly until batter forms.
Add fennel seeds.
Knead for 5 minutes.
Put dough in loaf pan.
Bake for 40 minutes, or until browned on top.
Cool on a wire rack.
Lightly grease a loaf pan with butter or Crisco.
In a mixing bowl, combine flour and salt.
Add Buttermilk, butter, and eggs and whisk slowly until batter forms.
Add fennel seeds.
Knead for 5 minutes.
Put dough in loaf pan.
Bake for 40 minutes, or until browned on top.
Cool on a wire rack.
Rhubarb Compote
Ingredients
- 1 lb. rhubarb
- 1 cup sugar
Directions
- Trim and chop rhubarb.
- Put rhubarb and sugar in a medium saucepan with about 1/4 cup water
(the water helps the sugar melt without burning) over medium heat. Cook,
stirring frequently, until sugar is fully dissolved.
- Increase heat to high and bring mixture to a boil. Reduce heat to maintain a steady simmer and cook, stirring once in awhile, until rhubarb breaks down and the mixture has thickened, about 20 minutes
Lohikeitta-Salmon Soup
Ingredients
1. Tbsp. Butter
2. 1 Onion Finely Chopped
3. 4 Potatoes
4. 4 Cups Fish Stock
5. 2 lbs Fresh Salmon Filet, cubed
6. 1 cup Heavy Cream
7. 1 Cup Fresh Dill, finely chopped
8. 5 Pieces of Bay Leaf
9. Dash of Sea Salt, Pepper, and Allspice.
Directions
1. Cut potatoes roughly into 1-inch cubes, and keep in water.
2. In a large saucepan, simmer onion in butter over medium heat until soft.
3. Add peeled and diced potatoes and then enough water to cover potatoes. Turn up heat to high, cover the saucepan with a lid, bring to a boil and cook potatoes until soft.
4. Add salmon to pot and cook until almost opaque, about 5 minutes. Do not stir.
5. Add fish stock and cream, along with a dash of salt and pepper to taste with just a dash of allspice. Cook 5-10 minutes.
6. Remove from heat and stir in fresh dill.
7. Serve with rye bread and butter.
Recipes courtesy of www.alternativefinland.com, www.finnishfoodgirl.com
Fun Facts about Finland:
-The National Bird of Finland is a Whooper Swan 1. Cut potatoes roughly into 1-inch cubes, and keep in water.
2. In a large saucepan, simmer onion in butter over medium heat until soft.
3. Add peeled and diced potatoes and then enough water to cover potatoes. Turn up heat to high, cover the saucepan with a lid, bring to a boil and cook potatoes until soft.
4. Add salmon to pot and cook until almost opaque, about 5 minutes. Do not stir.
5. Add fish stock and cream, along with a dash of salt and pepper to taste with just a dash of allspice. Cook 5-10 minutes.
6. Remove from heat and stir in fresh dill.
7. Serve with rye bread and butter.
Recipes courtesy of www.alternativefinland.com, www.finnishfoodgirl.com
Fun Facts about Finland:
-Finland is the 8th largest in Europe, and the most sparsely populated country in the European Union.
-Finland has only been an independent country since 1918. Before that it belonged to Sweden or Russia.
-Finnish athletes have won more Summer Olympic medals per capita than any other nation.
-Drivers from Finland have won more World Rally championships than any other country, and more Formula One Championships compared to their country's population.
-According to UNICEF, Finland has the highest level of academic achievements of all surveyed countries for reading, mathematics, and sciences.
-Since 2004, Finland has ranked as 2nd or 3rd best country for the State of the World's Mothers by Save the Children.
-Finnish is a language belonging to the Uralic Family, along with Estonian and Hungarian.
-Finns are the world's Largest Coffee Drinkers. They consume 25lbs of coffee annually. Twice more than Italians, Three times more than Americans.
-Santa Claus is known as Joulupukki or "Yule Goat" officially resides in a house built right on top of the Arctic Circle, near the town of Rovaniemi which is in the Northern Province of Lappland. The Santa Claus Post office address: Santa Claus Village, FIN-96930 Arctic Circle receives over 700,000 letters every year from over 200 countries.
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