Several years ago, I went on my first holiday with my then boyfriend. Unlike normal people, we didn't go away for a weekend somewhere not too far away first - we went to Stockholm then Oslo for a week, followed by a week in Devon. The boyfriend is now my husband, so the plan was perhaps not as daft as I worried it might be immediately before we went. While we were in Stockholm we met up with an old friend of mine who now lives there, who told us about Fika, a concept of which I thoroughly approve. And not long before lockdown started I read a tweet about someone successfully making Kardemummabullar, Swedish cardamom buns, and decided I should give them a go at some point. Seeing as I had cardamom from last week's hell paste I thought that the time to try them was now.
I used the recipe you can find here, although I had to use normal flour instead of bread flour. In honour of the buns and successful holidays past, I used the in-date yeast though. The dough is pretty easy, as is the cardamom butter for the filling. Shaping the dough into knotted little buns sounds so easy on the website, I must confess that tying them in knots is slightly more complicated but after a couple where they were more twisted together than knotted, I got the hang of it.
I used the recipe you can find here, although I had to use normal flour instead of bread flour. In honour of the buns and successful holidays past, I used the in-date yeast though. The dough is pretty easy, as is the cardamom butter for the filling. Shaping the dough into knotted little buns sounds so easy on the website, I must confess that tying them in knots is slightly more complicated but after a couple where they were more twisted together than knotted, I got the hang of it.
Leave them to rest for a bit, brush with beaten egg, bake for 20-25 minutes. While they rest you're supposed to cover them with "lightly oiled clingfilm". Clingfilm is the work of the devil at the best of times, I rarely use it these days (beeswax wraps ftw!) and oiled clingfilm is even worse. I consider myself lucky to have managed to get it over the buns and not all over either me or the counter. I actually left them to rest overnight and did the beaten egg, baking and then cardamom sugar glaze in the morning as that was I could eat them for breakfast. That's justifiable, right?
It's pretty obvious that my next planned and booked holiday isn't going to happen now (it was to the Western Isles, not as glamorous as Stockholm but something I was looking forward to anyway). I figure that thinking of holidays past by eating buns for breakfast is an excellent coping mechanism.
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Wow, these are amazingly impressive. They would definitely console me for at least the duration of breakfast.
ReplyDeleteThey helped with a mid-morning snack too.
DeleteIt looks so 😋. I can’t think about past elsewhere (too nostalgia) or future elsewhere (too uncertainty) or elsewhere. I can’t dream a lot in these days. But your elsewhere make me happy.
ReplyDeleteWow, I'm seriously impressed, they look terrific.
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