The Cake is in the Mail
Every other month we get a cake in the mail, Christmas is no exception. It can be carrot cake, chocolate cake, fruit cake and for Christmas we got a Finnish spice cake. The cakes are always home-made, of course, with a pinch of love from Farmor. She wraps the cake in tin foil and then in a hand-towel, and sends it on its way to us in Tromsø. Amazingly enough, cakes always get here in one piece.
We love getting ‘care’ cakes from Farmor. Her baking is always fantastic. My favourite is her cowberry bread. It is tradition to eat it with a mild cheese and we add salami on too as the tang of the meat goes well with the berries.
I think the funniest thing we have received in the mail from Farmor is Finnish sliced ham bought when she went on a ‘border shopping trip’. Farmor knows the ham is my favourite as it reminds me of ham in Australian honeyed-ham.
All this mail is certainly filling up our cupboards with hand-towels.
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It looks delicous! Farmor sounds like a perfect grandma. Maybe she would like to adopt me? LOL.
Happy New Year to you,
Debbie
Now I’m off to bake a cake! You got me hungry.
hi
i am living in turkey.i want to rder cake.can you help me.
thanks
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from L-Jay:
I’m sorry, I don’t know what you are asking. What is “rder”?
I love your website! I lived in Norway for 11 months, and although my home and heart are in California, I could not have asked for a more incredible place to live than Norway!!! I will never leave my home permanently again, but I do miss and long for so many things in Norway, the people, i love the people!!! I made so many wonderfule friends there, I thank them for being so lovely and hospitible!!! The scenery, there has never been a more pleasing place to my eye than Norway in all my travels, Norway is the lovilest of all. the history, I did not get to see enough of it and hope to go back for more. The bakeries, I love bakeries all over the world, but Norway & Sweden bakeries, with their fresh berries, fresh cream and almond…I miss this so much!!! And the fresh bread in the grocery store every day! The natural licorice! Hiking, berry picking, mushroom hunting, the millions of wild flowers are more than anywhere I have ever seen…one must look close because many are so tiny.
Anyway, I love your website, thank you for sharing it with us!!! Would love recipes from some of the food you post!!!
Tusen Takk!!!
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from L-Jay:
Vær så god
Fruit Cakes are the specialty of my grandmother, she bakes lots of fruit cakes..–