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Let's Make Pepparkakor!

12/8/2017

Me, rolling out gingerbread dough.

...also known as Swedish gingerbread cookies!
As I was rolling out dough for pepparkakor last weekend, I realized I didn't know anything about the distinctly thin and crispy cookies I've been cutting out and eating every year. So, I decided to look into what I could find about the history of Swedish gingerbread and share my favorite recipe, which comes from an almost-antique 1986 Allt Om Mat.
Enjoy and God Jul!

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Resolute like it is 1899, dear fellow (Part 2)

1/14/2016

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Let's taste test this stuff.

(For background on the cookbooks I used, visit part 1 of this post.)

Skansen open-air museum in Stockholm, where many episodes of Historieätarna were filmed.

One of my very favorite TV shows is a Swedish series called Historieätarna, which is based on a British show called The Supersizers.... (If you speak Swedish, you can check it out here.) Lotta Lundgren and Erik Haag devote one week to living from a period in Swedish history. They go whole hog - clothes, drink (which means they are drunk a lot), activities, work, and food. Their professional chef cooks mostly what seem like bizarre, but historically accurate, meals from the past.

The last post was about those Victorian cookbooks, and this one is about becoming a history eater in just a tiny way and testing some of those recipes. (But warning, I'm not a food blogger... don't let anyone every tell you that's easy....)

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Resolute like it is 1899, dear fellow. (Part 1)

1/11/2016

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If it were 1899, and you were making a New Year's resolution, it might be to try that healthy eating style they're calling 'vegetarianism' ....

“You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.” - from Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895

But if you're not eating the ape and instead sharing dinner with him, what are you eating? Some Victorian cookbooks offered the solution long before the California 1960s hippies did.

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Come in, the stacks are open.

Let's Make Pepparkakor!

Resolute like it is 1899, dear fellow (Part 2)

Let's taste test this stuff.

Resolute like it is 1899, dear fellow. (Part 1)

If it were 1899, and you were making a New Year's resolution, it might be to try that healthy eating style they're calling 'vegetarianism' ....

Come in, the stacks are open.

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