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Lily's Third blog

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Lefse & Pepperkaker Hei Hei!! 🫐🌿  This is Lily and I hope you are doing great. My third blog is going to be all about baking. It's almost Christmas season this year and I am already looking forward to its cozy and amazing atmosphere. I took this opportunity, and I decided to make two products for this time: Lefse or Kling (a soft and sweet Norwegian flatbread) Pepperkaker (traditional Norwegian ginger cookies) ------ Christmas Baking in Norway: Norwegian Christmas food is rich, comforting and deeply traditional. "For many people Christmas still means making gingersnaps, doughnuts, cones and several other types of cakes and cookies."  (Goldstein & Merkle, 2005) ・・・Lefse : a soft and sweet flatbread - It's commonly eaten around Christmas season, especially in western/central Norway. - Lefse was for special occasion because wheat, potato and butter were valuable, and it is a custom to bake lefse in the family. In fact, often every family has their own recipe. ...

Lily's Second Blog

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Preserved meat products - Sausages Hei Hei!! 🫐🌿  This is Lily and hope you are doing great. My second blog is going to be about preserved meat products, and getting know little more about how traditional Norwegian foods by making use of as much as possible of an animal.  I took this opportunity, and I decided to make 'cured sausages' with pork.  ==================================== Before getting into the recipe, a few information about Norwegian meat preservation culture may be needed:  Norway has a deep-rooted tradition of preserving meat, which dates back to the country’s harsh climate and long winters. Before refrigeration, Norwegians developed various methods to make meat last through the cold months. Fresh food was scarce, so meat had to be preserved during the autumn slaughter to survive until spring. Norway’s geography, cold, mountainous, and with limited farmland, made preservation essential. Farmers and fishers slaughtered animals in autumn, when it was c...

Lily's First Blog

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Juicing and Jamming Hei Hei!! 🫐🌿 This is Lily and I am very excited to write and share my blog with you. My very first blog is about preserved foods in Norway, and little recipe that I referred for the cooking.  I took this opportunity, and I made two products; Strawberry jam🍓 Raspberry juice✨ The recipe below get inspired by our lovely professor, Kari Ryslett. Hope you will enjoy reading them as 'Blogging Beginner' post :) ====================================== The main purpose of food preservation in general is to prevent unwanted changes occurring during prouct storage. 🔍By the way, did you know how preserved foods became a significant part of Norwegian food history and cultural traditions? Jam plays a very important role in Norway's food preservation culture, where there is a strong tradition of preserving berries picked in summer / autumn to help people get through the long, harsh winter. ☃️ Norway's harsh climate, with the northern part of the country within t...