Brit Reacts to Semlor the Desert That Killed A King

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  • @Aragorn430
    @Aragorn430 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    11:38 ''Snuffbox, small, usually ornamented box for holding snuff (a scented, powdered tobacco). The practice of sniffing or inhaling a pinch of snuff was common in England around the 17th century; and when, in the 18th century, it became widespread in other countries as well. Table boxes can still be found in the mess of certain old regiments - often in the traditional 'ram's head' style - and a communal snuff box is kept in the House of Commons in the UK parliament. People of all social classes used these boxes when snuff was at its peak of popularity. '''

  • @CarolineWijk
    @CarolineWijk ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Swedes eat millions of semlor during the season of semlor! On “Fat Tuesday”, the day they traditionally are eaten, about six million are sold. ONE day! 😅

  • @tussekatten8683
    @tussekatten8683 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    You should try semlor when you come here, they can be found almost everywhere in the early spring/ late winter❤❤

  • @EmmaCse
    @EmmaCse ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Yes, every Swedish person has had semlor. Like he said in the beginning, we have a special day for it in February: "Fat Tuesday". Every workplace in Sweden will serve these for the afternoon fika on Fat Tuesday. They are actually quite easy to make, but most people by them at a bakery or just the local grocery store.

    • @zimon85
      @zimon85 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Can confirm. Every swede has had several semlor.
      Not the hetvägg version. The modern one.

    • @mr.sts.p
      @mr.sts.p ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes you can buy Semlor at food stores or bakery the modern version if you want het wegg you have to boule it in milk!

    • @pippen0512
      @pippen0512 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      the onely swedes that don't eat them are those with almen allergy and bakers. every bakery whip out about 5000 of these a week, every week for about 2-3 munth before and almost 10000-20000 a day just before fat tuesday. I live in a smaler city with ca 70000peaple and we have 3 big bakerys. every swed get one at school, work, extra ackivety and at home, and we make difrent variants of them in sice, amount of creem and filling (we even use safran in the bun for christmas). this is the one pastery every baker can do in there sleep after one fat tuesday. (there even are specal cuting machins for this pastery alown.

  • @AHVENAN
    @AHVENAN ปีที่แล้ว +7

    One thing you need to know, if you come to the swedish speaking part of Finland and ask for a "Semla" you will get something completely different, here we call those "Fastlagsbullar"

  • @ricmatify687
    @ricmatify687 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    During the right period, you can get them in almost all stores, and bakeries. But you should go for the bakery ones because they make them fresh at the location. Many variants exist.

  • @SteamboatW
    @SteamboatW ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Around february/march the modern version is literally everywhere. ... even my local Kebab place packs them in next to the Baklava's.

  • @BerishStarr
    @BerishStarr ปีที่แล้ว +11

    A snuffbox is a box in which you store your snuff, or snus in Swedish. A tobacco you put under your lip.
    Do they sell them in Sweden? Haha 😂You can find them EVERYWHERE in Sweden the weeks around Fettisdag. Bakeries, Supermarkets even some Gas Stations will sell them. You can probably get it at a bakery any other day, but that is not how we do it in Sweden. We eat them in February, and especially on Fettisdagen.
    Also, you eat the lid first 🤤

    • @reallivebluescat
      @reallivebluescat ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Snuff is snorted thru your nose. Not the same thing as snus. I think the guy in the video got the two confused. Cause there isnt really a English term for snus. Some people call it "drip"

    • @BerishStarr
      @BerishStarr ปีที่แล้ว

      @@reallivebluescat Yes, confusing 🤣

    • @reallivebluescat
      @reallivebluescat ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Not only do u eat the lid first, you use it as a spoon for the filling!

    • @frozendude707
      @frozendude707 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@reallivebluescat Called "dip" in the south/bible belt of the US.

    • @SteamboatW
      @SteamboatW 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@reallivebluescatIt's called "wet snuff" in english. ... and at the time if Adolf Fredrik they would have used the dry snuff, hence snuffboxes.

  • @cynic7049
    @cynic7049 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Cajsa Warg (23 March 1703 - 5 February 1769), Swedish cookbook author (probably the best-known such in the Swedish culinary history) and our most well know cook, save for a few modern (post WWII) ones.

  • @marcusfridh8489
    @marcusfridh8489 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Actually he had a very large dinner where the Semla was only the last thing on that dinner table, and he died not of the dinner, but just got a stroke. In the modern semla, he forgot the almond paste under the wipped cream

    • @reallivebluescat
      @reallivebluescat ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Hetvägg isnt even the same pastry
      Back in the day, bread was often rock hard, hence, the warm milk, or other some liquid

    • @SteamboatW
      @SteamboatW ปีที่แล้ว +2

      No, he said that almost the second sentence.

    • @MulleSnuttan
      @MulleSnuttan ปีที่แล้ว

      Did you miss him putting the almondstuffing in the semla? I saw it 17:50

  • @Nina-sn8hf
    @Nina-sn8hf ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Speaking of crazy stories from Swedish history, you should check out the story about the Swedish warship Vasa. The ship sank outside Stockholm harbour in 1628.

  • @ulvsbane
    @ulvsbane ปีที่แล้ว +3

    If you want to watch a quite weird Swedish related topic, have a look at Sweden Hill in Japan. A town in Japan looking as Sweden. If you just see it you would really thing it's from Sweden. The main difference is of course the signs that is in Japanese and the fire hydrant.

  • @tompettersson3814
    @tompettersson3814 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    You sound more accurate. Me and my grandma always made semlor :)

  • @Ikaelgo
    @Ikaelgo ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Yes, there are few Swedish people who haven´t tried a semla. They are sold during a limited period of time (longer nowdays, though). Probably for about 2-3 months, after New Year`s and before Easter, approximately. It is a very important time for bakeries and cafés. There are even judging panels in the daily newspapers trying different semlor and grading them - so that customers know where to go and get the best semlor in town! Each year there are also new ”trendy” varieties of semlor launched. Sometimes a success and sometimes not so much…. I have made my own only once - they were good but The recipe I followed was quite complicated regarding how to make the buns. In my family we, usually, get them from Tösses bakery in Östermalm, Stockholm. Delicious! I still prefer them they way my grandmother served them - with varm milk. Much easier to eat that way (with a spoon or a fork). To me, therefore, it’s more of a dusch and desert than a pastry. But most people do not have it with warm milk. And I only eat it like that (and call it ”hetvägg”) at home - not in a café or at work during the traditional Fettisdags-fikat.☕️

    • @Ikaelgo
      @Ikaelgo ปีที่แล้ว

      Dish not dusch!😊

    • @MulleSnuttan
      @MulleSnuttan ปีที่แล้ว

      I saw semlor in my local store last week and I think it's just nuts. They are to be eaten around March 1:th, next year the "Fettisdagen" are celebrated February 13:th. If you'll be eating them all year around your body soon will be looking like the bun itself 😅

  • @ototgustaf114
    @ototgustaf114 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Then I eat a semla I will get the one with almond paste and whipped cream (we have many different sorts of semlor). Then I eat the lid first after that I powder over with some cinnamon and after that I pour over some warm milk on the cream and around the semla and eat it with a spoon and this is called hetvägg:) I think it is the best way to eat a semla I strongly recommend

  • @marcofsw
    @marcofsw ปีที่แล้ว

    Last year was crazy, bakeries in Stockholm had lines of people outside and extended opening hours...

  • @INeedsMoneys
    @INeedsMoneys ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Not gonna lie, the guys pronunciation is funny af. He makes it sound like he's had a brain aneurysm

  • @EmmaCse
    @EmmaCse ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Your Swedish is way better! And also, at 19.34: rookie mistake! You eat the "lid" of the semla first, unless you want cream all over your face. ☝🏻

  • @nenikiato3230
    @nenikiato3230 ปีที่แล้ว

    we still ask for a ``Stop`` when we go to a bar, its a little bigger jug of beer.

  • @matshjalmarsson3008
    @matshjalmarsson3008 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Snuff (snus) is ground up tobacco. At the time it was dry and snorted.
    Now it is a wet mix of tobacco and some spices and is used by putting it under your upper lip.
    It's the most popular drug used in Sweden. I'm not sure, but around 20% uses it.
    Everybody in Sweden eats semlor, traditionally they're only made from Easter and a week or so after, but nowadays you can find them at most of the year.
    When I was served hetvägg as a child, it was just the regular/modern semla with hot milk.

    • @cynic7049
      @cynic7049 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Possibly the most popular drug in Sweden, AFTER alcohol.

    • @matshjalmarsson3008
      @matshjalmarsson3008 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cynic7049 True! And after coffee :)

  • @GoreChick
    @GoreChick ปีที่แล้ว

    I love that he has a pastry pokemon in the background

  • @LtotheR
    @LtotheR ปีที่แล้ว

    Modern Semla is really easy to make, just a wheat bun, Almond paste and whipped cream. And if u dont like almonds, you can replace the almond paste with vanilla custard 🙂🙃

  • @franbokskogtillfjall
    @franbokskogtillfjall ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I think eating semla in a bowl with milk depends on local traditions. I've never eaten semlor with milk (still haven't) but it seems more common in the city I moved to.

  • @KebneKaizeR
    @KebneKaizeR ปีที่แล้ว

    2022 over 6 million semlor was sold here in Sweden just on fettisdagen. And a bit over 40 million semlor is sold per year :P

  • @Eyrenni
    @Eyrenni ปีที่แล้ว

    If I'm not wrong, you're in the UK and if you're in or near enough to London, there's a bakery (The Swedish Bakery, also called Bageriet) that make them during the weeks around Shrove Tuesday. The modern version at least. It's on Rose Street. But yeah, as far as I know, they (like over here) won't have them during the "off-season" part of the year.

  • @aniieesteiner
    @aniieesteiner ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I make about a trillion (ok, 50) semlor every february because for some reason my family is under the impression that I'm a baker. I'm not. I'm a chef. Get it straight. But I love to bake, and I love my family so I only grumble a little. It's actually not that hard and doesn't take that much time. I cheat by buying almond paste at the store and boiling the buns is only for making hetvägg, not modern semlor. Some people gets a bit intimidated because a family of four doesn't need 20-40 semlor, but any odd recipe if for that amount. But problem solved easily as you could just chuck the buns in the freezer and have as a sweeter bread treat for fika, with just some melted butter and/or some jam.

  • @maryamniord2214
    @maryamniord2214 ปีที่แล้ว

    We usual make buns and fill them and add cream and put it in an plate and than put hott milk on or around the bun and est with an spon. But i have never boild the bun itself!

  • @flingan7512
    @flingan7512 ปีที่แล้ว

    a lot also in the past is when you have dry bread you wanted soft with milk for example

  • @nenikiato3230
    @nenikiato3230 ปีที่แล้ว

    snuffbox ``nusdosa`` is a box to put snuff ``snus`` inside, i have 2 in silver that my great grandpa used. we use more snuff than ciggarettes in sweden, you even had snuff in britain back in the day.

  • @deffan
    @deffan ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Damn now I need a semla, so off to the bakery

  • @birrextio6544
    @birrextio6544 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'm Swedish but I have never seen a semla made like that.

    • @SteamboatW
      @SteamboatW 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Propably because you weren't alive in the 18th century.

  • @birgittalagerstrom6264
    @birgittalagerstrom6264 ปีที่แล้ว

    Kajsa Warg made this recepie but we don't eat semla this way today😊 if you come to Sweden, you have to come in february. Thats the time for semlor 😀 you are so welcome.

  • @yamikage8826
    @yamikage8826 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There is a town in japan called Sweden Hills (スウェーデンヒルズ, Suēden Hiruzu) is a Swedish-style village in Tōbetsu, Hokkaidō.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Hills
    th-cam.com/video/pxUbDOIMukU/w-d-xo.html&pp=ygUSc3dlZGVuIGhpbGxzIGphcGFu

  • @MrBern91
    @MrBern91 ปีที่แล้ว

    "Snuff" is tobacco which you snort. Not common in this day and age, but it was in the 18th century before there was chewing tobacco and later, also cigarettes. Oh, and also snus in present day. :P A very typical swedish thing, and it is still banned in most places in the world. I think in Europe, it's avaible in ofcourse, Sweden, Finland and also in a few countries in the Balkans. Then it is also avaible in Canada and the US.
    Also, semlor is a seasonal thing. They sell them in both stores and bakeries between December and April I think. But they're unavaible after April till the next December. Hetwäggar med Mandel is not something you would get your hands on anywhere though unless you make them yourself. :)

  • @marcofsw
    @marcofsw ปีที่แล้ว

    Street scene at 11:24 still look the same - Myntgatan towards Riddarholmen.

  • @SteamboatW
    @SteamboatW ปีที่แล้ว

    If you are surprised about a Swedish town in Kansas - there's a Swedish celebrating town in Japan!

  • @teodorrydberg254
    @teodorrydberg254 ปีที่แล้ว

    yes most people in sweden has has semlor ussaky for sale in febrary, bot that hard to make yourself thou good to drink a glass of milk to it but eat it "dry"

  • @Pr1ck4chu
    @Pr1ck4chu 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I used to work at a bakery, i've made THOUSANDS of semlor. I have never baked or eaten these types of semlor. Hetvägg is something that only old people eat (according to my experience at least). The "modern semla" in the clip is totally not a modern semla, a semla without almond paste in the middle is just wrong. Just some bread and cream isn't the best experience, you need the almond center (we usually mix it with some of the bread that we got from emptying the bun and a little bit of cream or milk to get a smooth batter) and some powdered sugar on the top.
    It isn't that hard to bake a regular Swedish semla, the hardest part is making the buns (and they're just regular wheat buns). I don't know if you have almond paste in the stores in England? All the stores here has "mandelmassa" ("almond mass") in the baking department, right next to the marcipan.

  • @tangfors
    @tangfors ปีที่แล้ว

    Make the modern ones, they are easy, you buy the bun, the almond mixture is easy to make, then you just add cream and a little icing sugar.

  • @gustav204
    @gustav204 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love how your pronunciation is better than that of the guy who did the video :)

  • @PUTDEVICE
    @PUTDEVICE ปีที่แล้ว

    the filling is not difficult. but can't you buy ready made smooth cardamom buns. Here in Sweden, ready-made bread like this is available all year round. I haven't tried hetvägg myself, but I like old-fashioned semlor

  • @reallivebluescat
    @reallivebluescat ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Snuff is where powdered tobacco meets cocaine 😂 (sort of. Meaning, you snort it).
    Not to be confused with snus

    • @SteamboatW
      @SteamboatW 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They're both called "snus" in Swedish.

  • @LoneWolf731000
    @LoneWolf731000 ปีที่แล้ว

    What a mess! But I promise, it's very delicious! 1 Semla once a year is a must and because I only eat 1 each year, I never get tired of it! It's a tradition!

  • @TobiasEngstrom
    @TobiasEngstrom 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    They are available everywhere in a store near you

  • @scyphe
    @scyphe ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Mmmm, semla. Tasty heaven. I'm not particularly curious about the 18th century variant though; modern semla ftw. Actually, scratch that; I'd go with that version without the milk.

  • @lucasholmberg5708
    @lucasholmberg5708 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have never maade a semla mysself but I buy at least one every year and even the cheap ones are amazing

  • @sts6388
    @sts6388 ปีที่แล้ว

    I subscribe to Max. Haven't watched his videos in ages though 🙈. But watched this one before 😊

  • @erikahlander3489
    @erikahlander3489 ปีที่แล้ว

    Adolf Fredrik is maybe the most unknown king in Sweden' s history (counting "Sweden" from 1523). Only a single biography is written, only a few years after he died, and not much information about him as a persson. He seems to have kept a sincere interest for sience and natural history; showing experiments for his wife. They were both fascinated by Linnaeus on his heights of fame. Both collecting natural history, the queen fanatic on beatiful corals, seashells and insects, while the king had a more sincere interest for snakes, lizards and fishes in alcohol - and stuffed birds. I think he was curious, while she wanted to impress. If he actually made many snuffboxes I doubt... But they brought much of Europe to Sweden.
    The reason he became Swedish king at all was due to political pressure from Russia.
    The history of "semlor" is much better known than that of the king - maybe because he had no power.

  • @GametvElite
    @GametvElite ปีที่แล้ว

    To me what the dude baker aint a semla. A semla for me is the buns whipped cream almond paste? And the top on

  • @88marome
    @88marome ปีที่แล้ว

    He could eat 7? I sincerely doubt that! Whenever I’ve eaten just 2 semlor I’ve felt really nauseous afterwards. I could not imagine 7 or 14, not even small ones.

  • @agren.l
    @agren.l ปีที่แล้ว

    Never have i. You dont have eggs in and the almond in my likeing its supose to be smoth. When you have pulled the bun out of it self and you put the almond back in to the hole, then you shell sprinkle on the top , then you put back the led. Then you spred some icing säger on The top. Now you warm up Milk, pour it in to a deep plate , and lie donwn the bun in the Milk. Very Nice, but today you havevit on a dide and a cup of tea or coffe. Sometimes when i look AT this i Wonder were they get the info from. Is the same what the weird tings we do. I am thinking and wondering what planet they comming from. You find the real receptet, If you googla SEMLA. My spelning and grammatik is not so good. But this is what you get. Hope you understsn😊

    • @SteamboatW
      @SteamboatW 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Almond paste shouldn't be smooth like marsipan. It's supposed to be crunchy.
      ... and that recipe is a genuine Kajsa Warg recipe, so it's very accurate.

  • @elizabethlillieronn1040
    @elizabethlillieronn1040 ปีที่แล้ว

    I dident no about little Lindsburg in CANADA

  • @elizabethlillieronn1040
    @elizabethlillieronn1040 ปีที่แล้ว

    The old days the have not got a freezor so the bread got hard so they warmt upp milk and have it with the SEMLA

    • @SteamboatW
      @SteamboatW 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Well, in this recipe they wouldn't use old stale bread.

  • @stiglarsson8405
    @stiglarsson8405 ปีที่แล้ว

    There is a season for Semla, its around the easter fast!
    Its befor the fast.. fill up befor going in to the fasting!
    Now its more of a pastry, becuse there is no chistians anymore.. at lest non that follow christian rules!
    In anyway no fasting anymore, so the story about the pastry thats that good its worth to die for, is a urban legend!
    And if you ever get to sweden and eat a Semla, remember this, there is no way to eat a semla with dignity, you supose to bite in and get cream and powder sugar at least on your nosetip!

  • @reallivebluescat
    @reallivebluescat ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I think the guy in the video sound ok speaking swedish, but the melody is a bit wrong

  • @Traveller2036
    @Traveller2036 ปีที่แล้ว

    🇸🇪🍻🍺

  • @spaceyoghurt3401
    @spaceyoghurt3401 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ”He sounds really good”.
    Don’t worry Dwayne, his pronunciation is actually awful. 😂

  • @Zabiru-
    @Zabiru- 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    His Swedish pronunciation sounds very sing-songy and unnatural. You do not say it with a up-down-up-down intonation like that. I'd attempt to describe it but I'm really rusty on my phonetics and linguistics in general

  • @viktorlindqvist5308
    @viktorlindqvist5308 ปีที่แล้ว

    No his pronounciation is horrible

  • @fridamarias
    @fridamarias ปีที่แล้ว

    I hate semlor xD they're everywhere in Sweden in february I think

    • @elderscrollsswimmer4833
      @elderscrollsswimmer4833 ปีที่แล้ว

      Would you like them better with jam instead of the almond paste? You can get that, the almond ones or even both in Finland.

    • @fridamarias
      @fridamarias ปีที่แล้ว

      @@elderscrollsswimmer4833 I like them best with vanilla curstard =) but to be honest, I'm not a fan of cream or dry bread (which is a risk unless you go homebaked or a fancy bakery) so I would probably choose something with chocolate instead. Like kladdkaka, can never go wrong with that!

  • @elizabethlillieronn1040
    @elizabethlillieronn1040 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dont belive what he says.he talks about FRANCE

  • @CarolineWijk
    @CarolineWijk ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Swedes eat millions of semlor during the season of semlor! On “Fat Tuesday”, the day they traditionally are eaten, about six million are sold. ONE day! 😅