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Last Sunday before Christmas..

.. is called "Skittensøndag" or "Dirty-sunday" here. according to tradition you should clean whatever you hadn't done before, so the Christmas celebration could start. "We" working women are NOT ready just for cleaning yet. I have baked Christmas cakes; "Småkaker" ("Small-cakes") today, and NOW I am ready to start the last shining up! LOL!

I have baked Krumkaker:

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(May be you also use this cake???) I bake them the traditional way in an "iron" which are lying at the stove. This picture is a humouristic one, the Photographer shows what easily can happen if you do not watch the cakes carefully:
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The cakes come out like a very thin round cake , and is patterned. To give them shape, I roll them around this cone:
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I have also baked "Tyske skiver" ("German slices"(?) which you can se behind the cakes with chocolate:
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Very easy to make. I have also made some "Julemenn" ("White cake-men", the most used "Cake-men" are brown, but the white ones are tradition around here.) This is a cake Children LOVE before Christmas, but since my daughter come home for Christmas, I will have some of them then!
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**************** Yesterday I finished my last gift project, I have been stupid enough to start on big projects, so it has been "neck or nothing" the last days, evenings,.. even nights. The sweater for DS was ready when I left for Oslo. It was knit from relatively thin yarn, so you can imagine the time ot took.

He is tall and "broad shouldered", so there were LOTS of stiches! I knitted a Gansey-type sweater, horisontal stripes, I knitted patterns I "know". It is a bit similar to this, but much more masculine in shape:

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DIL and SIL got knitted hats and scaves, DIL in Idena mohair Lux yarn; rose with beads on the hat. (this sweater is knit in the same colour
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I am not too happy to knit with mohair yarn, but the result was nice. But for DD I have made scarves several times, and THEN I decided what has made me a "night knitter": I would make a sweater, but I would use very thick yarn! Well, yeasterday it was finished and I feel I can fly! LOL! I made the hat too. (The pattern is not in english yet)
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Have a good sunday! AUD ;-))

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Aud
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Ohh, they look like Italian Pizelles, which I make. Traditionally, you use anise flavor, but you can make vanilla, lemon or chocolate, too.

Sounds like you'll be having a very tasty holiday season!

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The Gallaghers

Aud,

Wow, a baker and knitter too, congratulations on getting everything finished on time. I know what you mean about knitting with mohair, not my favorite either, but I've found a yarn by Lion Brand that I simply love and it's called Jiffy, quick and easy Mohair look yarn. I love it so much that I now have about 36 skeins of it in three colors.

Hugs,

Nora

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norabalcer

Eimear

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ejk

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Yes! I did a google pickture search, and you are right! We usually do not use any special flavor, some use cardemomme. We eat it just like it is, but also fill it with cream and jam/ fruit/ berries.

And yes we have very tasty food traditions connected with the celebration, many of them also from pre Christian time, when they celebrated a very big (and animated ;-) mid winter feast. earlier I salted lamb rib and then dried it, the day before christmas we cut it up, and water it for 24 hours. Christmas eve we damp it for ceveral hours, and this Christmas dinner smell is the best smell in the world for many of us!

I have made Lamb-roll

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pork-roll
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1.day brunch.http://www.anis.no/images/illu/428.jpgI have also made "delfiakake", the most fat cake you can imagine, but a "must" for many!
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;-)

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Aud

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Nora I checked that yarn! Not so long haired as many Mohairs! I once chrocheted a hat with a similar Spannish yarn, it was easy to work with, and not impossible to frog! LOL! There were incredible numbers of coloures in that Jiffy, I can see why yuo have ordered 36 skeins! AUD ;-)

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Aud

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Sound tasty!! AUD ;-))

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Aud

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***** We eat them as they are, OR fill them with crem + jam/berries/ fruits.
**** Oh, that is interesting!
****And taste like shortbread....
*** Our Brown are with ginger, pepper and other sices. The colour comes from syrup.
***I do not know that, but I guess yuo will find Krumkaker in Norwegian/ american sites YES!!! Here is one:
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Aud

Thank you, I have saved that website to my favorites. I will search for the other treats in google tomorrow. I am about to get off here soon and start cleaning up so we can finish the decorating. :o)

Gem

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MRH

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