I’ve got a really great book club. Sure, we like to read the odd book but what we’re really about is food.
This month our pick was The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. We chose it because it met two of our essential requirements. The story was set in Sweden offering a new cuisine for our food laden meeting and heck, Swedish meatballs were on our minds
I offered to make dessert but couldn’t come up with a single Swedish idea, let alone recipe name. So I opened up my two-inch thick, 10 pound heavy copy of The Professional Pastry Chef by Bo Friberg and found two measly entries: Swedish Lenten Buns (which fellow member Jann had already snagged) and Swedish Apple Tart. Besides, both of these recipes were incredibly complicated (duh, it’s for pros)!
So I made a simple geographical jump, reasoning that those southern neighbours of Sweden had a good thing going on.
In other words, a Danish could go Swedish. Continue reading “When a danish goes Swedish”
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