Fun fact about oats is that it really gets better the more light it gets. That is why oats from the Nordic countries and Canada are much better quality than from other countries since the day during the summer is much longer.
I want to make sure you had leipäjuusto well warmed so it becomes soft and chewy. It totally changes the texture. Because even many Finns nowadays eat it cold which is not the right way...
Mämmi is traditionally made of water, rye flour, powdered malted rye, seasoned salt and dried, powdered Seville orange zest. The mixture is then left to sweeten naturally, before being baked in an oven until set by the Maillard reaction.
Finnish blueberry is forest blueberry that grows near the ground and the guys "normal blueberry" is highbush blueberry that is usually farmed (though also grows wild in North America). You can buy highbush blueberries in Finland too but I don't know why one would (except maybe to make nice looking decoration to cake) because they taste so bland after eating the forest ones (eg. normal ones, sorry guys 😉). Also, while talking to berries, most common ones beside blueberries are strawberries and cranberries. Of course there are also other common berries but they usually require you to have yard to grow them (or for example cloudberries mostly grow in northern Finland). Blueberries and cranberries anyone is able to pick everywhere in Finland and strawberries just are popular for some reason anyway 😄
Do you mean lingonberry(not cranberry)? Blueberry, lingonberry and cloudberry are the most usual to pickup from forest with the everyman's right in Finland. And in home garden different currants, raspberry and strawberry.
Yeah, I mixed my berrys in English. But after reading your comment I realised that rasberry is also one some people pick from wild too. It's just harder because it reguires different kind of growing place than forest berries and one might need to find new berry spots every year.
@@IronAllu Lingonberry is more common than cranberry, cranberry is more localized like cloudberry so I assume they meant that. Like wild raspberry(tastes 10 times better but you need to pick more) is easier to find than cran and cloud here in the south. Then Magic forgot the childrens favorite the one that reminds us all of the time when we were small wild strawberry(milk and sugar and...)!
Its blueberries, bilberry is a scandinavian word that translates to blueberry... its just that americans stole the word once again because they forget that they went from europe to america... So its only in english that they tried to make it more clear and took the word bilberry. Its a bit like football, here its always Football and then American football. In fin we have forest blueberry(european) and bush blueberry(american), funny fact is that in fin its not blue its black. In swe we have blueberry(european) and bush blueberry(american).
Think your podcast was already on the radar of Irish in Finland, so sounds like there might a possible collab there. It'd be a fresh angle from someone that's Irish and lives more far up in Oulu.
+1 I've been melting Cheddar on karjalanpiirakka since early 2000. Marmite goes better on ryebread IMO, the pies are too fragile to spread it. Best combo for me - dark Reissumies, PBnJ, with Welch's grape jelly.
My unorthodox way of eating mämmi is with maple syrup. But it gets very sweet, so if you don't like overly sweet stuff, it's not for you. You could also add some vanilla sauce etc.
It's funny how Karelian pies are a "traditional" Finnish food, although both the common fillings are not native to Finland. Potatoes are native to the Americas and spread to Europe through the transatlantic trade that began after Columbus and 1592. Potato cultivation started in Finland in the 1720s. Rice does not even grow in Finland and needs to be imported from Asia, imports to Finland began in the 1600s. So yeah, there is a history of some 3-4 hundreds of years, if you can call that "traditional", I don't know. As far as I know, the third popular pie filling has been barley, and that has been grown in Finland for thousands of years. So barley pies could be called "traditional" with a better conscience.
Yeah, we got tired of bear and wolf meat so we tried this hip thing called rice and loved it so much that we culturally appropriated it to ultimately create this heavenly thing that will be around until the end of days. The fourth filling is sarcasm, I added some into this comment too.
Fun fact about oats is that it really gets better the more light it gets. That is why oats from the Nordic countries and Canada are much better quality than from other countries since the day during the summer is much longer.
I want to make sure you had leipäjuusto well warmed so it becomes soft and chewy. It totally changes the texture. Because even many Finns nowadays eat it cold which is not the right way...
Mämmi is traditionally made of water, rye flour, powdered malted rye, seasoned salt and dried, powdered Seville orange zest. The mixture is then left to sweeten naturally, before being baked in an oven until set by the Maillard reaction.
Thanks for sharing the process! Now I feel like having some mämmi!
Karelian pie is the best food in Finland. It's amazing homemade.
Finnish blueberry is forest blueberry that grows near the ground and the guys "normal blueberry" is highbush blueberry that is usually farmed (though also grows wild in North America). You can buy highbush blueberries in Finland too but I don't know why one would (except maybe to make nice looking decoration to cake) because they taste so bland after eating the forest ones (eg. normal ones, sorry guys 😉).
Also, while talking to berries, most common ones beside blueberries are strawberries and cranberries. Of course there are also other common berries but they usually require you to have yard to grow them (or for example cloudberries mostly grow in northern Finland). Blueberries and cranberries anyone is able to pick everywhere in Finland and strawberries just are popular for some reason anyway 😄
Do you mean lingonberry(not cranberry)? Blueberry, lingonberry and cloudberry are the most usual to pickup from forest with
the everyman's right in Finland. And in home garden different currants, raspberry and strawberry.
Yeah, I mixed my berrys in English. But after reading your comment I realised that rasberry is also one some people pick from wild too. It's just harder because it reguires different kind of growing place than forest berries and one might need to find new berry spots every year.
@@IronAllu Lingonberry is more common than cranberry, cranberry is more localized like cloudberry so I assume they meant that. Like wild raspberry(tastes 10 times better but you need to pick more) is easier to find than cran and cloud here in the south. Then Magic forgot the childrens favorite the one that reminds us all of the time when we were small wild strawberry(milk and sugar and...)!
I read this recently but Finnish blueberries aren't actually blueberries, they are bilberries which is a different variety.
Its blueberries, bilberry is a scandinavian word that translates to blueberry... its just that americans stole the word once again because they forget that they went from europe to america... So its only in english that they tried to make it more clear and took the word bilberry. Its a bit like football, here its always Football and then American football. In fin we have forest blueberry(european) and bush blueberry(american), funny fact is that in fin its not blue its black. In swe we have blueberry(european) and bush blueberry(american).
I am a Finn who has put Marmite and cheese on Karelian pies for like 20 years so I think we actually beat you to it. 😅
This was a lot of fun, thank you!
Thanks for sharing! really helpful
Think your podcast was already on the radar of Irish in Finland, so sounds like there might a possible collab there. It'd be a fresh angle from someone that's Irish and lives more far up in Oulu.
I imagine Marmite is easier to find there than Vegemite… quite interesting podcast!
+1 I've been melting Cheddar on karjalanpiirakka since early 2000.
Marmite goes better on ryebread IMO, the pies are too fragile to spread it.
Best combo for me - dark Reissumies, PBnJ, with Welch's grape jelly.
I'm surprised that out of all the things on your list the one that got both thumbs down was leipäjuusto🤣 the like/dislike concept was fun!
I also always eat mämmi with milk. Best way. I don't add sugar, just milk. It is the best way.
My unorthodox way of eating mämmi is with maple syrup. But it gets very sweet, so if you don't like overly sweet stuff, it's not for you. You could also add some vanilla sauce etc.
Mämmi with vanilla sauce is bomb 👌🏼
Makaroonilaatikko has to go with ketchup, also milk and Pälkäneen Perunalimppu with butter.
I knew the Finns would understand! Makaroonilaatikko needs ketchup haha
I think it really depends on how wet you make it. Fresh and wet makaroonilaatikko is as good if not better than with ketchup
You guys are so adorable! What about reindeer meat???
Tyyppi syö vegimiteä mutta ei mämmiä 🙄😁
Finnish food: Pizza, kebab and Hamburgers.
It's funny how Karelian pies are a "traditional" Finnish food, although both the common fillings are not native to Finland.
Potatoes are native to the Americas and spread to Europe through the transatlantic trade that began after Columbus and 1592. Potato cultivation started in Finland in the 1720s.
Rice does not even grow in Finland and needs to be imported from Asia, imports to Finland began in the 1600s.
So yeah, there is a history of some 3-4 hundreds of years, if you can call that "traditional", I don't know.
As far as I know, the third popular pie filling has been barley, and that has been grown in Finland for thousands of years. So barley pies could be called "traditional" with a better conscience.
Yeah, we got tired of bear and wolf meat so we tried this hip thing called rice and loved it so much that we culturally appropriated it to ultimately create this heavenly thing that will be around until the end of days. The fourth filling is sarcasm, I added some into this comment too.
That’s pretty much all of Europe though
Call irish in finland