Swedish flatbread

It is Bank holiday Monday and it is raining. So Fred and I have decided to bake flatbread. If the weather improve we will go down to the beach later and our freshly made flatbreads will make a perfect snack.

This is how we make them,
25g fresh yeast
500 ml milk
75g butter
1/2 tea spoon salt
2 table spoon syrup
3 table spoon sugar
1 table spoon fennel seeds (crushed)
1 table spoon caraway seeds (crushed)
600 ml white flour or white spelt flour
800 ml wholemeal flour or wholemeal spelt flour

Melt the butter and add the milk, fennel and caraway seeds and heat up to 37C.
Crumble the yeast into a large mixing bowl, poor the milk/butter liquid and mix well.
Mix in all other ingredients.
Work the dough well until it is smooth and glossy ( if you are using spelt make sure you work it for longer than you would with normal flour).
Leave the dough to rest for 30 mins.

Tip it out onto a well floured baking table and work it by hand for a few mins. Cut it up into 20 pieces
Role each piece out to a thin round "pancake" with a rolling pin. Fry in dry frying pan (preferable cast iron) for 2 mins on each side on a medium heat.

Enjoy warm with butter or use your flatbread as a tortilla and fill with your favourite filling.

Redcurrant sponge cake

I been thinking of taking Fred to a Pick Your Own Farm. He loves to pick the tomatoes that we have in the garden and when we are in Sweden we pick allot of wild strawberries and raspberries.
So, I have had a look around and there are several PYO farms near to us.
One of the berries in season right now is Redcurrant (which I don't think we use enough) so that is what we are going to pick. Here is a recipe for a lovely Redcurrant sponge cake.

75 g unsalted butter
3      organic eggs
200 cl sugar
1 tsp vanilla sugar
250 cl flour
200 cl redcurrant
75 cl desiccated coconut Butter a sponge tin and cover the inside with coconut.

Set the oven at 200 C

Melt butter in a pan and take it of the heat. Mix all other ingredients, apart from the currants, in to the melted butter. Mix it quickly with a fork, pour  the mixture into the tin and scatter the redcurrants over.
Bake in the bottom of the oven for 25 min.

The cake should be golden and served with vanilla ice cream or clotted cream.

Enjoy

by nord cushions

Good morning,

I just want to show you some lovely cushions from danish company byNord www.bynord.com
The Polar baer cushion is from swedish department store åhlens Ahlens also have some verry cute cushions with Zebra and Lion. www.ahlens.se/inredning/kuddar/index.html

Post 1

Hi, This is my first post.
I'm hoping that this blogg will give you an insight to everyday life as a Anglo - Swedish family.
I will blogg about being a parent, food, interior and swedish and english traditions.