Thread: Finnish Food

It's a Tiger cake and I've adjusted it a little to be able to make it with Australian ingredients.

200gms butter
2 cups sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla sugar
3 eggs
2½ cups self raising flour ( I don't thing they have this in Finland, and if you use plain flour you have to add 2 teaspoons baking powder)
300ml milk
2 Tablespoons cocoa


Cream butter, sugar and vanilla sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing in well each time. Add flour (and baking powder if using) mix into dough, adding milk. Then pour one third into another bowl and add the cocoa to that third. Then spread in layers in your greased cake tin, first light, then dark, then light, having light at the top and bottom. Try for about 5 - 7 layers. Cook in moderate oven until cooked, about an hour and a half.

that sounds yummy!!! I think I am going to have to try it but I just wonder Vanilla Sugar - is it like liquid? I haven't heard of it here in Canada, but we have Vanilla Extract (liquid)

Hi, anybody like Salmon?
I have a fab recipie for" Salmon papiotte"
How about Reindeer ever had that?
Or Moose ( Elk)

Shanaya

Vanilla sugar isn't liquid, it's just very fine sugar that has had a vanilla pod sitting in it for a while. The extract would do though. It has the vanilla flavour.

I love salmon. What is a papiotte?

Hi Peni,
its the wrapping its cooked in. Its cooked in the oven wrapped in a alu.foil but must be airy like boat shaped sail.
Preheat the over at 180ºc
You take salmon fillet fresh if possible (frozen is ok too) if you want to cook for a party of people you have the fillet in one piece, but for normal house holds 2/3 fillets of 2cm thick.
Place a sheet of alu.foil on a baking tray.
a large knob of butter, salmon on top.
some freshly grounded sea salt & pepper, some garlic fresh not to much, 2 tbls of sojasause, curry powder. Leave a few minutes. In between time .
Fry a onion normally sliced and mushrooms light in some butter, just a few minutes. You can decide how much you like.
Pour the onions & mushrooms with its juice onto the salmon, fold the alu.foil into a papiotte, like a sail of a boat..all seams closed. pop it into the oven, middel ,for 20mins at 180º.
take it out and let it rest for 5 mins, then open.....just the smell is enough.
sprinkel with fresh dille if possible.
This can be served with fruit cocktail, or a nice fish saus.

enjoy.
shanaya

hhm - that sounds so good. Can't wait til Spring when there is all the fresh BC Salmon.

I have never had reindeer or moose. I did have a friend try to get me to eat deer, but when they said "It was Bambi's Mom" I just couldn't do it.

I love Fazer Chocolates and meatballs

Here is the vanilla sugar available in Canada, Dr. Oetker :: Dr. Oetker Original Vanilla Sugar

I hope this helps.

Originally Posted by Truecanadian

Here is the vanilla sugar available in Canada, Dr. Oetker :: Dr. Oetker Original Vanilla Sugar

I hope this helps.

thanks - I will look for it the next time I am shopping.