How nice that you have found your way here! Welcome to my Christmas Kitchen!
This is my collection of Swedish Christmas goodies that I want to
share with you. These are cookies and candy my family has made for Christmas my
whole life. Christmas without kola, pepparkakor, lussekatter,glögg, and
knäck
isn't Christmas at all to me! The restrictions stated in the introduction in
My Kitchen
apply to the use of these recipes.
There are two recipes for gingerbread cookies. I recommend the first one
because the cookies taste better and are more fun to make. However, if you
can't get hold of all the ingredients, or think it sounds more complicated
(which it sort of is), you can use recipe number two.
You who are looking for Lucia recipes, check out the gingerbread cookies and
the saffron buns. That's the two goodies the Lucia and her tärnor offer
when
they make their rounds.
(The lump test and the water bath further down on these pages are frequently
referred to in the recipes.)
Recipes
[
Kola
]
[
Knäck
]
[
Chocholate Candy
]
[
Marzipane
]
[
Pepparkakor
(Gingerbread Cookies) ]
[
Gingerbread 2:nd recipe
]
[
Lussekatter
(Saffron Buns) ]
[
Glögg
]
The Lump Test
To see if the kola and knäck are finished boiling, drop a little bit of
the mix into a glass with cold water. If you can form a firm yet not hard lump
out of it, it is done. Only use this method if you don't own a candy
thermometer because it is less reliable than the temperature method. If you
boil it too long, you'll end up with rock hard candy whereas if you don't boil
it long enough you'll get really sticky candy.
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Water Bath
Bring 2-3 cups of water to a boil. Break the chocolate in to pieces in a bowl
with a larger diameter than the pot with boiling water. Cover the pot with the
bowl with chocolate-pieces. Don't let any steam mix with the chocolate or it
will become lumpy.
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