That day is
the day that you eat the Semlor.
Even if I came to Sweden for work several times, I never had the opportunity to taste those bunns; this is because usually people eat them during the carnival and, indeed, on the day itself where traditionally they ate Semlor: Mardi Gras [the luxurious food before the start of Lent].
Last Sunday, however, I was finally able to taste a Semla too.
the regular plural
… as I’m learning during the course of Swedish that I just started].
I
had breakfast with the
typical pairing
“Semla och Kaffe“.
But
then I discovered, when telling it to my colleagues that laughed for this, that the Swedes never have breakfast with sweet food.
Usually at breakfast they eat salty food, sweet pepper and cucumber sandwich with ham rather,
while the cakes are
for an afernoon snack.
I
loved it so much that
talking about it with my colleagues I discovered that the Semlor day is Mardi Gras, and
usually people gather at home,
with friends or family, to bake dozens of Semlor all together and have dinner starting with a light soup in order to be able to eat Semlor later on!
If you
want to try to prepare them, here’s the recipe for 18 pieces:
75 g of yeast
3 dl of whole milk
150 g butter at room
temperature
2 eggs
1 dl granulated
sugar
1/2 teaspoon
salt
1 crushed grain of cardamom
11-12 dl
flour
1/2 teaspoon
of ammonium bicarbonate
For
the filling
300 g
almond paste
1 dl of
milk
5 dl of whipped
cream
powdered
sugar
Preparation
Crumble the yeast into
a bowl.
Heat the milk up to a
maximum of 37 ° .
Pour it over the yeast
and stir.
Add
one egg , butter , salt, sugar, cardamom and almost all the flour mixed with
ammonium bicarbonate.
Knead the mixture .
Let rise about 50
minutes.
Put the
dough on the floured work surface .
Divide
into 18 pieces [ or 60 small pieces] and form round buns
.
Arrange
on baking sheets and let rise covered for about 30
minutes.
Turn on the oven and
bring to 225 degrees.
Cover the buns with beaten egg and bake in the middle part of the oven 8-10 minutes
for big ones , 4-6 minutes if you have chosen the option small
.
Once
cooked and cooled , cut a small top cover and excavate by removing a portion of
crumb inside.
Mix
the breadcrumbs with the almond paste and milk and fill the buns with this
mixture .
Whip
the cream and arrange the bun with the help of a sac- a-poche .
Replace
the lid that you cut earlier and sprinkle with powdered sugar .
For
the lazy people, while I was at the grocery shop, I found something that that I called “Ikea version ”
: all the ingredients ready , only to be assembled!
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