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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. ...

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...