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Swedish Candy and Italian Delights

A little Scandinavian, A little Italian

This is the last week to scramble for the years Spirit of Christmas 2007.  The is the point of decision making, scrap that plan, give up on the other . . try to finish the items with the most potential.  This year I have re-invented the Reindeer Kit and added a web page to match.  The vanilla caramels have a new look to them and I am testing new recipes in Popcorn.  Really . . . I have tons of popcorn . . this should have been obvious before.  More knack this year since I sold out the first day last year.  What else is new?. . . oh, learned a lot of good things about chocolate this year.  The results turned out fabulous!!

Statistics

Here are a few statistics from the 2007 production;  I used:
20 kg of sugar
6 litres of apple sauce
8 litres of corn syrup
4 kg of chocolate
600 grams of almonds
all the crab apples off my apple tree.

Hello, I am the Scandinavian part of Scan-Taly. My friend Angela came up with the name after we had prepared for the 2004 Spirit of Christmas - Festival of Trees in Camrose. We really didn't sell much but it was a fun adventure. Our idea was that I cook Scandinavian Food and she cook Italian Food. I diverted a bit when I tried chocolate tempering (tricky), hard candy and caramels.  

My goal some day is to perfect Polkagris, a Swedish candy stick. In the mean time, my specialty is Swedish Flatbread, Tunnbröd. I have perfected my own recipe for soft flatbread.

I practiced with rolled sugar cookies and royal icing. I made several different recipes of sugar cookies recipe to find the one I liked best. The results of this mini survey are listed under the Recipes tab. 

Robert made Tomatsill (pickled herring in dill tomato sauce) for us this year. It is wonderful tasting stuff! "Inlagd Sill" is very traditional in Sweden at Christmas time. Making inlagd sill with tomato sauce is a bit of a twist, but it tastes fantastic and has the right colours for the Christmas Holidays!

My favorite product for this year was created after I cleaned up old toys and started thinking about recycling. I call them Hittebok (Fun Book). They combine my love of sewing and computers together. They are short original stories using words that are connected to objects within the plastic beads for the children to find. I have recycled many stray Barbie shoes this way.

Stay tuned for more Swedish Recipes - drinks - food and candy!

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