Kalakukko bread is a loaf of rye bread with a pork and fish filling made in eastern Finland, particularly the Savo region. The shape can be round or oval. The bread has a hard crust about 1/ 2 inch (1 cm) thick. Sometimes it will be up to 1 inch (2 ½ cm) thick, particularly…
Finnish Food
Munki
Munki are Finnish jam doughnuts made from white wheat flour risen with yeast, and kneaded. They are cooked by frying them up in oil. Like most jam doughnuts, there is no hole in them. There are a few variations. The jam inside can be raspberry jam, strawberry jam or apple. The doughnut can be round…
Pot-Au-Feu
Pot-Au-Feu is a French cold-weather dish, akin to what an English-speaker might call a “boiled dinner.” The dish has a mythical place in French cooking, particularly on Sundays. There is at least one entire book dedicated to the topic: “Pot au feu” by Julia Csergo, 218 pages long (published by Autrement, 1999.) Pot-Au-Feu is a…