Shrove Day

[Cloudberry]

I'm a little confused after reading Finnguides description of Shrove Day http://www.finnguide.fi/calendar/calend ... nth=2&p=11 So is it on Tuesday or Sunday? or is there a Shrove Tuesday and a Shrove Sunday? Basically, I want to know which day you're meant to make pea soup and shrove buns

[Pursuivant]

Tuesday is when you go down the hill for the long flaxen.

"Laskiaissunnuntai" is some old lent day: Septuagesima Sunday, Shrove Tuesday, Ash Wednesday... etc.

[EP]

Pea soup and buns certainly at least on Tuesday after going downhill. Buns appear to stores usually three weeks before shrove Sunday. They have been there for a couple of weeks already. I make my own because I don´t like that almond stuff in the almond buns and the jam in jam buns is too sweet for me. Those who like them eat them just about every day this time of the year.

And it is BOTH Tuesday and Sunday. I don´t know why. Maybe because adults work on Tuesdays and cannot go playing in snow before Sunday.

[AldenG]

I've heard it described that Helatorstai (Kristi himmelfärdsdag in Swedish, also Kristi flygare) is Christ Flying Day and that Shrove Tuesday / Mardi Gras (Laskiainen in Finnish) is Christ Skiing Day. It is said, after all, that Man created God in his own image. So I suppose it's only natural that the Scandinavian Jesus would be so athletic. Probably short-haired, blond, and sunburned, too. In a sky-blue track suit instead of the white robe we recognize from surviving portraits.

[Pursuivant]

Ah, but Alden you have surely heard this:

At it was in that day the shorn-heads were come from Inglanti. So the kuningaz brought them over to his hovi for the yule to provide entertainment. The shorn-heads then told them how is it in heafen or helviti. So the kuningaz with his hirdmen listened while drinking the ale and eating the pork.

Kuningaz: So you say if we continue our ways and sacrifice the horses and old slaves onto the oak, we go to helviti?
Monk: Yes...
Kuningaz: And helviti you say is this place the demons throw all the time coals into a big fire, so its hot like in miklagård and the land of the rum? And the people there are bathed in hot pitch and so forth??
Monk: Yesss...
Kuningaz: So in this heafen your people go to you are barefoot in clouds like snow in the sky in these white clothes you give us in baptism...
Monk: Yes!
Kuningaz:As you have been here and you know how we love the hot and hate being cold in the snow, so what do we need to be sure to get to the helviti ?
Monk: ..... ooops... let me rephrase this...


And this is why the Nordic hell is cold.

[Cloudberry]

It is said, after all, that Man created God in his own image. So I suppose it's only natural that the Scandinavian Jesus would be so athletic. Probably short-haired, blond, and sunburned, too. In a sky-blue track suit instead of the white robe we recognize from surviving portraits.

Pea soup and buns certainly at least on Tuesday after going downhill. Buns appear to stores usually three weeks before shrove Sunday. They have been there for a couple of weeks already. I make my own because I don´t like that almond stuff in the almond buns and the jam in jam buns is too sweet for me. Those who like them eat them just about every day this time of the year.

And it is BOTH Tuesday and Sunday. I don´t know why. Maybe because adults work on Tuesdays and cannot go playing in snow before Sunday.

Thanks EP I guess home made would be so much nice and I agree, the ones in the stores seem to be far too sweet. I don't remember the ones my grandmother use to make being so sweet. I really must learn to make them. I think there was a recipe in one of the supermarket mags. Or do you have a recipe to share?

[Upphew]

I really must learn to make them. I think there was a recipe in one of the supermarket mags. Or do you have a recipe to share?

Make regular bun, cut it up, insert jam and whipped cream, enjoy.

[Pursuivant]

Can you get this or do we need to translate? http://reseptivihko.net/laskiaispulla its pretty much the same recipe for this kind of a "fluffy" pulla. My mom used to make smaller more korvapuusti-like pulla with cinnamon and chardamom... not that I was a pulla-eating person ever...

[Cloudberry]

Can you get this or do we need to translate? http://reseptivihko.net/laskiaispulla its pretty much the same recipe for this kind of a "fluffy" pulla. My mom used to make smaller more korvapuusti-like pulla with cinnamon and chardamom... not that I was a pulla-eating person ever...

Oh thanks for that. No need to translate - I've been using Finnish recipes as a way of teaching myself Finnish Really? you're not into pulla? the smell of pulla heavily spiced with fresh cardamom is so comforting to me.

[Pursuivant]

Naah, stale pullapitko with raisins... I get a mental image of my grandma and aunt putting the sugar between their teeth and slurping off the saucer... No, no pulla. a danish or a munkki occasionally, and I should check the recipe, my mom made a brick-like fruitcake I just loved. Sort of crumbly and moist - not like your christmas "best before 2030" from the store... and no damn raisins... her meat pie was also to kill for. But I'm a bit bad in baking, should try out more.

[tuulen]

Can you get this or do we need to translate? http://reseptivihko.net/laskiaispulla its pretty much the same recipe for this kind of a "fluffy" pulla. My mom used to make smaller more korvapuusti-like pulla with cinnamon and chardamom... not that I was a pulla-eating person ever...

Oh thanks for that. No need to translate - I've been using Finnish recipes as a way of teaching myself Finnish Really? you're not into pulla? the smell of pulla heavily spiced with fresh cardamom is so comforting to me.

Pulla is Finland's best kept secret! Absolutely delicious! The only thing pulla needs is to be accompanied by a cup of hot coffee. Wonderful!

[Rosamunda]

Can you get this or do we need to translate? http://reseptivihko.net/laskiaispulla its pretty much the same recipe for this kind of a "fluffy" pulla. My mom used to make smaller more korvapuusti-like pulla with cinnamon and chardamom... not that I was a pulla-eating person ever...

Oh thanks for that. No need to translate - I've been using Finnish recipes as a way of teaching myself Finnish Really? you're not into pulla? the smell of pulla heavily spiced with fresh cardamom is so comforting to me.

@cloudberry

The "hiiva" in Pursuivant's recipe link is the fresh kind. it is sold as a small wrapped cube (maybe 25 gms?) and you'll find it in the cool cabinet in the supermarket (maybe near the fresh cheeses or the butter and margarine). Sometimes it takes a while to find it. They have a fairly short shelf life but you can freeze them.

And the "mantelimassa" is a kind of marzipan, usually wrapped in plastic (a bit like liver sausage) and you'll find it near the cake-baking decorations which are often in the same aisle as the herbs and spices. There are different colours but the laskiaispulla use the basic vanilla-coloured variety.

[Pursuivant]

But then watch out as some ready-to-bake flours already have dry yeast in them so you only add the lukewam milk and don't need to get the yeast "going" first.

[Cloudberry]

Can you get this or do we need to translate? http://reseptivihko.net/laskiaispulla its pretty much the same recipe for this kind of a "fluffy" pulla. My mom used to make smaller more korvapuusti-like pulla with cinnamon and chardamom... not that I was a pulla-eating person ever...

Oh thanks for that. No need to translate - I've been using Finnish recipes as a way of teaching myself Finnish Really? you're not into pulla? the smell of pulla heavily spiced with fresh cardamom is so comforting to me.

@cloudberry

The "hiiva" in Pursuivant's recipe link is the fresh kind. it is sold as a small wrapped cube (maybe 25 gms?) and you'll find it in the cool cabinet in the supermarket (maybe near the fresh cheeses or the butter and margarine). Sometimes it takes a while to find it. They have a fairly short shelf life but you can freeze them.

And the "mantelimassa" is a kind of marzipan, usually wrapped in plastic (a bit like liver sausage) and you'll find it near the cake-baking decorations which are often in the same aisle as the herbs and spices. There are different colours but the laskiaispulla use the basic vanilla-coloured variety.

You're my supermarket guru Penelope we'll have to go shopping together again soon!

[Cloudberry]

Naah, stale pullapitko with raisins... I get a mental image of my grandma and aunt putting the sugar between their teeth and slurping off the saucer... No, no pulla. a danish or a munkki occasionally, and I should check the recipe, my mom made a brick-like fruitcake I just loved. Sort of crumbly and moist - not like your christmas "best before 2030" from the store... and no damn raisins... her meat pie was also to kill for. But I'm a bit bad in baking, should try out more.

Have you tried those little apple danish things you buy in the frozen food section? they're amazing!