During week 4 I cooked a lovely dinner for my friends and myself. It took several hours due to having to let the dough for the bread rise, but it was totally worth the wait.
I started my afternoon off by making the dough for the wheat bread.
While the bread was baking I then started on the soup.
Finnish Bread Recipe
The bread had all been gobbled up before it had even cooled down and the soup was ready. All of the soup was gone by the end of dinner too. Personally, both recipes are going down in my cook book. Both are very easy to make and very delicious. Over all this dinner was a definite hit.
Broccoli Cheddar Soup Recipe
This broccoli cheddar soup is very similar to the Finnish summer soup. The only difference is the added cheddar cheese, coming from the Midwest not surprising, broccoli and instead of green beans celery is used.
Fun Facts
Finnish serve some type of bread at almost all their meals.
Wheat was not as an abundant grain in Finland so wheat flour was generally saved for pastries.
Now days wheat is commonly combined with another type of flour to make breads and pastries.
There are so many different types of breads found in Finland. The most common bread types you will find are (though you will find different baking processes among these):
- Rye bread
- Wheat bread
- Oat bread
- Potato bread
- Barley Bread
Photos by: Valerie Dingman