Swedish
Meat Loaf with Mustard-Dill Sauce
Have creamed spinach and sautéed carrots with these updated Swedish meat loaves. Then serve applesauce and spice cookies.
Swedish Pancakes with Berry-Cardamom Topping
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Limpa Muffins
Limpa—a moist rye bread from Sweden—is often flavored with aniseed (or fennel), caraway seeds, and orange zest. These same ingredients also come together to produce the following fragrant muffins.
Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.
Ham with Tart Berry Sauce
Braised carrots, a cucumber salad, and some steamed new potatoes sprinkled with chopped fresh dill are good choices to accompany this Swedish-inspired dish. Holiday cookies and mugs of hot apple cider make a happy ending.
Swedish Ginger Thins
To roll out this dough you will need a pastry cloth and a rolling-pin cover, which are available at kitchenware stores and by mail order from Bridge Kitchenware, tel. (800) 274-3435 or (212) 838-1901.
Almond and Mixed-Berry Shortcakes
Almond paste in the shortcake biscuits and fresh berries glazed with red currant preserves give this dessert a Swedish accent.
Rye Twists with Anise, Fennel and Orange
One bread that Swedish settlers brought to the heartland was limpa; these twists are a nice twist on that classic.
Swedish Red Cabbage
A traditional side dish for the Christmas ham, sausage or spareribs.
Herring Canapes
In Sweden various combinations of matjes herring — a type of herring cured in a spiced sweet-and-sour brine — are eaten with the first tender white potatoes of the season.
Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.
Raisin Rye Bread
Called limpa in Sweden, this impressive bread is flavored with a combination of molasses, orange peel, crushed aniseed, and caraway and fennel seeds.
Swedish Pickled Beets
A Scandinavian table is seldom without them.
Limpa
(Swedish Rye Bread)
A popular offering on the smorgasbords of Minnesota and Wisconsin, this bread has a clean-tasting combination of spice and sweetness that is characteristic of so much Scandinavian cooking.
Swedish Corn Bread
This moist sweet corn bread is a nice addition to breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
Caramelized Lemon Tart
A delicious treat from Aspa Herrgård. If you don't want to caramelize the top in brûlée style, just sift powdered sugar over the tart before serving.