#finland recipes

[because-its-eurovision]

Finnish magazine Yhteishyvä published a recipe and video on how to bake a Käärijä roll cake for your spring festivities! The decoration is made of sugar paste, rolled tart base is lime-flavored and the filling tastes like Piña Colada 🖤💚

[kyrju]

just saying

[sootyships]

oven pancake

2-3 eggs

2 cups milk

1 cup wheat flour (cake flour or all-purpose)

1 tablespoon sugar

½ teaspoon salt

¼ cup melted butter (apparently half a stick, salted is fine)

break the structure of the yolks and whites

add the milk. mix in the dry ingredients and the oil/butter.

let stand for 30 min (the flour absorbs liquid and swells a bit etc)

place parchment paper on a c. 14x15 inch baking tray with some height on the edges. the parchment paper should cover the whole tray and come up above the edges. you may also grease the paper to aid release, but it should be fine regardless.

pour the batter on the baking tray

bake in a 440 F oven for 15-20 min until the surface gains a toasted colour. the batter may gain large bubbles, that is fine.

cut into squares and eat with whipped cream and strawberry jam.

(this makes a fairly thin pancake, if you want a thicker one, you may double the recipe)

(this exact same recipe is also used for the crepes! just fry the batter on a skillet instead of baking. use butter for frying for best results. add a single ladleful of batter on the skillet at a time--these are supposed to be thin! add butter to the skillet after each crepe, and keep the temperature high enough, to achieve beautiful, crispy, lacy edges. the first crepe is always mediocre, but the following ones should be better, once you get the right temperature.)

[baku-usagi]

Baked my family's Finnish pulla bread and now spending time with the lap cats.

[phantomseptember]

Laskiaispulla

Recipe I used (Technically just for the pulla sweet bun and then making whipped cream is fairly straightforward.) Was It Good? Yes! My friend @legendarylobster came over for this one, and showed me all her secret baking tips and tricks! These turned out way better because of her (also go check out her amazing art!) Feel free to up the cardamom amount in the recipe, as its similar to garlic in that it is measured by the heart.

[gaystuffgarbage]

Kelkka (The sled) drink actual recipe:

A bit of vodka, Passion liquor and orange juice

Kelkka (The sled) drink recipe on a budget:

A lot of  booze or Vodka, Mango/Orange juice and basic Orange juice (The two juices about half and half, put some water in if you don’t like it too sweet)

[niuniente]

These are amazing and the taste, as well as the dough (which is DELICIOUS), is very similar to Finnish jam filled short bread cookies Herrasväen pikkuleivät (Gentry’s Cookies).

1) Instead of making one flat cookie with this recipe, roll normal small cookies from the dough. Other option is to roll the dough flat with a rolling bin and use a cookie cutter (that way the cookies are even). Don’t sugar coat them yet. 2) When baked (around 10 minutes), let them cool. Add in between two cookies a raspberry jam. 3) Roll cookies in sugar when they’re jam filled.

[basicbats]

okay current plan.

E1 - Breakfast - e2 - look up recipe for cinnamon buns - e3 - make cinnamon buns - e4 - ??? Maybe lunch already?? - e5 - cry. Freak tf out. Rewatch parts probably and cry and freak out some more

[eyha]

Finnish Summer Soup Recipe Fresh vegetables should be used to make this soup. As in Finland, serve with a bread and cheese platter. Use frozen tiny green peas if you can't find fresh shelled green peas. 1.5 pounds fresh green beans cut into 1-inch lengths, 12 baby carrots, 2 tablespoons butter, 2 cups water, 1 teaspoon salt, 6 cups green onions cut into 3 inch lengths, 2 cups half-and-half, 2 cups fresh shelled green peas, 5 small potatoes peeled and halved, 1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper, 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour

[tacticaltaxonomist]

lad's scottish come on

Soap is a Dr. Pepper drinker

[sootyships]

"Chicken food"

- ~5 carrots

- ~14 oz honey marinated chicken fillet strips

- (additional spices)

- ~ 0.8 cup cooking cream

- 1 tbsp wheat flour

- water

- salt to taste

Set your preferred number of potatoes to boil. For an authentic experience, leave the peels on for now.

Peel and thinly slice the carrots. Fry the chicken, adding spices to taste. Add the carrot slices. If you prefer softer carrot slices, cover the pan with a lid to steam. Add cream. In a small container such as the cream carton, combine the flour with some water—0.4 to 0.8 cup—and rattle the life out of it to combine well. Add to the pan, mix with the cream and heat until thickened. Add salt to taste.

Peel your potatoes while they're hot. Eat with the sauce.

[survivalove]

Katara the selfcare queen

Every canon instance or mention (that i can rmr) of Katara indulging in selfcare in the middle of a war because I find it quite amusing yet fascinating.

I may or may not have made a post like this before but I wanted to expand on it.

1. Skincare routine

In 1x14, The Fortuneteller, Katara reveals she has a special seaweed lotion that she carries with her for soft skin. (Avatar Extras also made a point of saying that it smells…?) She even offers to get Aunt Wu some, as if she has extra. So my question is, who is this plug that she gets her steady supply of seaweed lotion from? 😭

Real-life: Seaweed has been used in skincare for thousands of years, first recorded in ancient Chile. Nowadays, seaweed extract is pretty common in skincare products especially from emerging brands in Nunavik and Iqaluit, Canada.

My headcanon: This is probably a recipe Katara picked up from the older women of her tribe, so she just plucks some seaweed whenever the gaang stops by a body of water. And she definitely makes it in cute glass jars and shares it with her fellow healers in the Republic City Hospital ✨selfcare queen✨

2. Spa Day

I just find this funny because when and how did she even find this spa? How long has she been going by herself? Look how comfortable she is like dhjfjcd she’s definitely a regular and they all know her.

Real-life: Saunas are pretty modern, starting up in Finland around 1112. (In canon, I think a firebender and a waterbender run a sauna in Republic City so hey.) Mudbaths on the other hand have been around for centuries and people have been doing it at any naturally occurring hot spring they can found. I don’t even have to tell you about massages so

My headcanon: Katara always knows where the spas and selfcare places are wherever they go. I definitely think she scooped up some stuff at the perfume abbey in season 1 (because she’s a kleptomaniac). I also headcanon she would have a spa setup in the back of Republic City Hospital because selfcare is healthcare too. Also, Aang gives her massages at home and he’s surprisingly good at it, but, Katara sucks at massages and Aang never lets her do it to him after that one time 💀

3. Yoga

In 3x11, Nightmares & Daydreams, Katara teaches Aang yoga to de-stress in a hot spring. My thing is, when did she learn about yoga and how often does she do it? We needed the Katara yoga mini shorts special. The kids would’ve loved it.

Real life: Yoga originating from ancient India is practised in a variety of forms in Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism. The poses they do are the Upward Salute and the Wide Legged Forward Bend.

My headcanon: I imagine Katara must have read about this at the Air Nomad Section of the Spirit Library, given the cultural heritage. Knowing her she found a yoga scroll and swiped it (can you say klepto?). This is another selfcare thing she does with Aang because it’s his culture! They do it every Saturday until he starts complaining about his old bones 😅

4. Hair care

Katara also wears a special cap on her head when doing yoga which I assume is to protect her hair from the steam 🤔 I just found it very interesting since we hardly see her hair covered. Then I also realized Katara is the only character shown actually combing her hair and styling it like 4 times: from the bun-braid, to the formal earth kingdom look, to her fire nation look and finally the bun with her hair out.

Real life: I typed so many things and I finally found something similar called a chinoiserie satin skull cap? (sorry pic limit). It’s similar in design and even has a tassel like Katara’s. Focusing on her hairstyles, the signature “hair loopies” are actually based on a traditional Inuit style known as qilliqti and her earth kingdom look is based on a traditional Manchurian style called liangbatou.

My headcanon: Like Katara’s mysterious seaweed lotion recipe, she probably makes several haircare products for herself, and has a major hair routine. So, it would make sense she wears protective caps from time to time. I also think both Hama and Katara are tied to the myth of Senna, the Inuit sea goddess, through the comb Katara uses which I headcanon is the identical comb Hama had in her home (again klepto).

If there’s any more selfcare moments I left out, please feel free to share or reply with your own Katara ✨selfcare queen✨ headcanons!

[homunculus-argument]

In finnish, there's an expression for having something in such overwhelming abundance that it wouldn't feel like wasting it if you were actively throwing it out - "olla [---] vaikka lehmät söis", so directly "enough of [the thing] to still have it even if the cows were eating it", and more precise-to-the-meaning "enough that you might as well be feeding it to the cows".

This is because Finland - in the summertime - exists in an overwhelming abundance of random types of plants. There's meadows and fields, forests, swamps, bushes, wherever you look during growth season, there's a plant growing somewhere out of it. Out of the cracks in the sidewalk. There's no desert areas in Finland, really, not naturally. Everything that isn't a body of water is covered with plants. There's plenty enough that the cows might as well be eating them.

And that's why traditional finnish recipes have so much different types of dairy in them. Butter, sourcream, cream, butter, cheese, buttermilk, a different kind of sourcream, a different type of buttermilk, a third type of cheese. Everything that isn't foraged from the forests is something made out of flour and milk. Like 90% of the finnish cuisine is people looking at their cows and going "what the fuck are we going to do with all this milk."

[teal-skull]

Once again finns being very much not normal about Käärijä but in a very finnish type of way (making traditional christmas pastries)

Can't believe they rebranded vihreä kuula (famous green marmelade balls ) christmas parties with Käärijä.

I hate this country.

Will definetly make these.

Fuck it, I'll make Käärijä gingerbread cookies as well

Vittu hyvää käärijä-joulua

Fucking Merry Kärtsmass

Anna magazine has created a recipe for Käärijä Christmas pastries and is predicting they'll be the greatest hit delicacy of the holidays

[mariacallous]

Piroshki are a popular Russian pastry of filled buns that are either baked or fried. Most piroshki are made with a soft yeasted dough that is enriched with egg, but some piroshki are made with a pastry dough of butter/margarine that becomes flaky when baked. The fillings for piroshki can range from savory to sweet, and include meat, vegetables, fruit and jam.

Piroshki typically come in two sizes: meal-sized or snack-sized. The larger form is often the size of a sandwich and can be served as a main dish, and the smaller kind is about the size of a Twinkie and is typically served alongside soup.

The word “piroshki” can confuse non-Russian speakers with its closeness to pierogi, which is Polish for dumplings. You may be familiar with pierogi, traditionally filled with potato or cheese, and in Russia there is a similar type of dumpling called vareniki. Piroshki are definitively not dumplings, but are more akin to a hand-pie or empanada. While filled buns of all kinds exist across cultures, the style of pastry that is piroshki originated in Russia. Their appeal has extended beyond Eastern Europe and into parts of Greece — where they are called piroski — to Iran — where they are called pirashki — to Finland, Central and East Asia and Japan (where they are still called piroshki).

Both my grandmothers are from the former U.S.S.R. My grandmother Fanya loved to cook and eat rich foods. She liberally used butter, sugar, salt and oil (and she lived past 90 years old for those concerned). My other grandmother, Mira, loved to eat healthily, opting for olive oil instead of butter, and preferred baking to frying. They were equally talented cooks, and piroshki were something they both made often. Their approaches differed: Fanya used a yeasted dough and she would deep fry the piroshki, and Mira used a pie crust-like dough for her piroshki, which she baked. While the dough and preparation differed, the fillings they made were similar: potato with caramelized onion, simply seasoned ground beef or chicken, or braised cabbage and carrot.

If I’m visiting Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, where there is a high concentration of Russian Jews and Russian food, my favorite piroshki are the giant ones sold from carts on the street that are most definitely fried, are the size of my head, and cost around a dollar. If I’m making piroshki at home then I opt for a yeasted dough, and I prefer to bake the piroshki instead of deep-frying them. In either case, I love cabbage piroshki best — the vegetable lends itself to the perfect combination of savory, sweet and hearty. The recipe here is for cabbage piroshki that pay homage to both my grandmothers. The dough has a light airy texture just like Fanya’s, and it gets baked, glossy and browned like Mira’s. I love to serve these with borscht or chicken soup, but they are good all on their own as a comforting, portable snack.

Note: Piroshki can be reheated easily and freeze well.

[annaliisa8]

Finland's Käärijä brainrot continues. Let me introduce you to the most trending Google keywords in Finland for 2023 that have something to do with our little green man.

People: 1. Käärijä

How: 6. How tall is Käärijä

Music: 1. Käärijä

Recipe: 2. Pina Colada

Source: https://trends.google.com/trends/yis/2023/FI/