Semla in Shanghai?
In Swedish traditions, we are supposed to eat Semla soon. I wonder where people in Shanghai can taste it, will they sell it in IKEA? or the restaurant Taste of Scandinavia in Zhongshan Park area?A semla is a traditional pastry in Sweden, associated with Lent and especially Shrove Tuesday.
The semla consists of a cardamom-spiced wheat bun which has its top cut off and insides scooped out and then filled with a mix of the scooped out bread crumbs, milk and almond paste, topped off with whipped cream. The cut-off top is then put back as a lid and dusted with icing sugar.
Some people like to eat it in a bowl of warm milk, but as we know if we would eat semla in China, we would choose not to eat it with milk, as it is absolutely IMPOSSIBLE to find good milk in China.
Each Swede consumes on average five bakery-produced semlas each year, in addition to all those that are home-made.
Now the questions come to me, should I eat a semla this year? (I'm trying to be on a diet) I didn't last year because I was in the US (I did go to seven-eleven to buy a punchki though). Decisions decisions!!!!!!!!
King Adolf Frederick of Sweden died by the way of digestion problems on February 12, 1771 after consuming a meal consisting of lobster, caviar, sour cabbage, smoked herring and champagne, which was topped off by 14 servings of his favourite dessert: a semla served in a bowl of hot milk.
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1 Comments:
That thing looks very tasty. Open the cafe here and get selling. We could use some nice swedish snacks here!!
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