Category: saffron
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Celebrate Lucia’s Day with Traditional Lussekatter and Swedish Songs in Apulia
Good morning. Lucia’s day has arrived soft and sweetened by the preparation of the traditional, saffron fragranced Lussekatter. It’s a Swedish delicacy, which, every year, can’t be missed from our table.
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Glad Lucia på er alla
Good morning, today we celebrate Lucia. We already lit her candle last night while making these delicious fluffy sweet saffron buns. As an alternative to raisins, this year we used small balls of butter and sugar that melted slowly, giving an additional fragrance of butter and greater softness to the buns. They have a lovely…
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Spring Rice Croquettes
Is there any better than baking golden, crisp Ribe rice croquettes for a cosy, cheerful atmosphere that announces the arrival of Spring season and calls for family and friends around the table? For those ones, who wish to take the opportunity to try this inviting recipe, here you have the description and ingredients necessary for…
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Celebrating Lucia, the bearer of light in the darkness of Winter
In the darkness of the early hours in the new day, just before the dawn announcement, Lucia advances with silent steps followed by mellow choruses, in a procession of candles, which lights the cold Winter sky with swaying vivid flames. Lucia brings light and hope to humanity.
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Lussekatter in progress
On the third Sunday of Advent, late night, here we are in the kitchen working the golden daugh for the Lussekatter. I couldn’t miss this very special Swedish culinary tradition dedicated to Lucia. I’m going to leave the soft daugh to leaven and rest all night long and tomorrow will keep on working on it.…
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