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Frasvåfflor = Crispy Waffles

6-8 waffles

4 decilitre milk

1 teaspoon baking powder

3 decilitre wheat flour

100 grams melted butter

Whipped cream and jam

Mix wheat flour, baking powder and half of the milk to a mixture. Add the rest of the milk and the melted, cool butter.

Heat the waffle iron. Put some melted butter on it for the first waffle. To the rest of the waffles you probably won’t have to put any more butter on the waffle iron.

Put ¾- 1 dl mixture, spread it a little and bake till they’re golden brown.

Put whipped cream and jam on them, and eat immediately to stay crispy.

Enjoy!

Mandelkubbar = Almond bowlers

Oven temperature 225° C

• 5-10 bitter almonds
• 100 grams margarine or butter
• 1 ½ decilitre sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 decilitre Sour Cream (is possible to use Sour Milk instead)
• 2 teaspoons hartshorns salt (is possible to use 4 teaspoons of baking powder instead)
• 5 ½ decilitre wheat flour

Decoration: Pearl sugar

Grind bitter almonds.

Stir butter (or margarine) and sugar porous. Add egg, Sour Cream, hartshorns salt, bitter almond and flour.

Cut the dough into 25 pieces. Roll them round between your palms and dip half of the ball in pearl sugar. Put oven paper on a baking tin and put the ball on it. Slightly press it. Continue with the rest of the dough.

Bake in the middle of the oven for 10-15 minutes.

The Swedish Way of Breakfast

In Sweden breakfast is pretty simple. We don’t cook bacon and eggs for breakfast, normally. We want to spend as little time as possible preparing breakfast. And we don’t eat lots of jam and Nutella or peanut butter. Normally. We’ve been taught from childhood that sugar isn’t good for breakfast. And jam and Nutella contains lots of sugar.

The normal thing to eat for breakfast is:

• Sandwich with cheese/ham/cucumber/tomato
• Yoghurt, milk or sour milk with cereals/porridge
• Orange juice/milk/water/coffee

When we want to make it a bit more luxurious we might boil an egg and slice it to put it on a piece of bread. Or maybe we cut some fresh fruit and put them in the yoghurt.

What most Swedes don’t know is that many cereals contain a lot of sugar as well. But anyway, that’s what we have for breakfast. This type of breakfast won’t keep you satisfied for very long. So after 2-3 I think that us Swedes are hungry again.

Like many other people Swedes are in a hurry in the morning. The teenage girl spends more time doing her makeup than eating breakfast. Parents hurry getting their children ready for school and at the same time manage to get in time for work. And there’s simply not much time left for breakfast.

Sour milk with wholemeal cereals, sanwich with cheese, milk.

In big cities breakfast is even more set aside. If you walk the streets in a big city in the morning you will see lots and lots of stressful people with a coffee-to-go. These people probably didn’t have breakfast at home. Instead they’re hurrying to work with a coffee in their hand, to have breakfast 3 hours after they woke up.

Of course there’s the other type too, like me, who needs breakfast the minute I wake up. But the majority of, at least the city people, seem to be in a breakfast-hurry.

Relax! Take it easy people!