Gluten-Free Swedish Tea Cakes / Glutenfria Tekakor

A recipe for soft, delicious tea cakes found on koket.se

Finally a gluten-free variant of an old Swedish classic.
Many Swedes’ favorite cakes!

Norwegian Cardamom Apple Porridge / Eplegrøt med Kardemomme

A dessert porridge recipe found on geniuskitchen.com

Norwegians adore cardamom! If you enjoy it like we do, give this old-fashioned dessert a try! Depending on how sweet your apples are adjust the sugar. Cinnamon can be replaced for the cardamom.

Norwegian Cinnamon Buns – Basic Recipe / Kanelboller Grunnoppskrift

A recipe for classic cinnamon buns found on melk.no

Cinnamon buns or cinnamon swirls – a loved treat has many names. One thing is for sure: Fresh baked cinnamon buns are among the most delicious things you can sink your teeth into.

Swedish Cardamom Cookies / Kardemummakakor

A recipe for Swedish Christmas cookies
found on svt.se

Christmas Crescents with Cinnamon and Clementines / Julehorn med Kanel og Klementin

A recipe for Christmas baking found on godt.no

Fill the house with the smell of Christmas with these tasty crescents with spices like cardamom. cinnamon, cloves and fresh clementines. They will give you the Christmas atmosphere, and will guaranteed be a hit at Christmas.

Norwegian Griddle Cakes with Christmas Syrup / Sveler med Julesirup

A Christmas variation on traditional griddle cakes
found on kiwi.no

This kind of griddle cakes are called Svele (plural: sveler indefinite: svelene) in Norway and it is batter based cake. By size and texture they may bear some resemblance to American pancakes, but are usually eaten for afternoon coffee or as a snack between meals, served with butter and either sugar or Norwegian brown cheese or with sour cream and jam. Baking soda or salt of hartshorn are used as rising agent in sveler, which give this cake its characteristic flavour. Recipes may differ slightly according to region or to house recipes.

Rolls with Dark Beer / Rundstykker med Mørkt Øl

A roll recipe found in “Mat for Ølvenner”
(Food for Beer Friends) published by Aventura in 1987

Beer in baking is not uncommon in older Norwegian recipes, neither in bread type of recipes like here or in cake recipes. It gives a distinctive delicate flavor and is well worth trying.

Traditional Norwegian Suldal’s Buns / Tradisjonelle Suldalsboller

A traditional bun recipe from Suldal in Southern Norway
found in Jærbladet’s recipe pages

Apple Crescents / Eplehorn

Recipes for juicy sweet crescents found on frukt.no

Lovely sweet crescents with grated apples that taste like a dream freshly baked. Try them with your favourite cheese or marmalade. Double the ingredients  and freeze half the crescents for later.

Apple Toddy / Epletoddy

A recipe for a lovely spicy toddy found on meny.no

Autumn is just around the corner here Norway now, so the evenings are not that hot anymore so this simple recipe for a tasty apple toddy can be a good idea. If you love apple and ginger, this hot drink is just the thing for you.

Spiced Hot Chocolate / Krydret Varm Sjokolade

A hot beverage recipe from the 17th century found on historyextra.com

In every issue of BBC History Magazine, picture editor Sam Nott brings you a recipe from the past. In this article, Sam recreates spiced hot chocolate – a chocolate treat enjoyed by kings and queens.

Sam writes: Hot chocolate has always been one of my favourite drinks but I have often wondered when the drink was first consumed in Britain.

I was surprised to find out that chocolate itself arrived in England in the 1600s, with evidence of it being drunk at the court of Charles I – before it was deemed a sinful pleasure by Oliver Cromwell, and banned.

This recipe is based on the drink served at the English court during the 17th and 18th centuries and the spices make it smell – and taste – wonderful. It’s also very simple to make. The drink is very rich – you won’t need a big portion – but since chocolate was believed to have medicinal properties well into the mid-18th century, you can see it as a relatively guilt-free treat!

Swedish Cardamom Cakes / Kardemummakakor

A classic Swedish Cake recipe found on godmat.org

Kuwaiti Traditional Tea / Kuwaitiske Tradisjonell Te

A traditional hot beverage recipe from the Middle East
found on allrecipes.com

This is the typical tea you will find in regular housed in Kuwait. Its deliciously aroma and the spices give it a rich taste.

Hot Chocolate with Cardamom Cream / Varm Sjokolade med Kardemummekrem

A great hot chocolate recipe found on rema.no

As I write this the biathlon world championship is held a few kilometers up the hilside from my flat and a Norwegian girl has just won the sprint distance.  What better moment to celebrate with a rather fancy cup of hot chocolate  – Ted 😉

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Cardamom Cake With Pears / Kardemommekake Med Paerer

A juicy cardamom cake recipe  from “Nye Mesterkokken”
(The New Master Chef) published in 1974

This recipe may seem a little different, but is really a good variation on the “old-fashioned” cardamom cake. You may use both overripe pears or windfalls, fruit of the highest quality is not needed.

 Recipe in English –  Oppskrift på norsk

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