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Pepperkaker – Ginger Bread
17 Saturday Dec 2011
Posted in Baking, Norwegian Cuisine, Yule
Anne blabbers
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17 Saturday Dec 2011
Posted in Baking, Norwegian Cuisine, Yule
This blog is no longer active. Recipe for ‘pepperkaker’ to be found here
Fun for the whole family! I made gingerbread this weekend too:). I love the cat shapes!
Er picked up the cat shaped forms at a Christmas market in Berlin a few years ago, never regretted that!
This is great, reminds me of my Mom and us kids making cookies together and we could decorate them any way we wanted. What fun!!!
We did have a lot of fun baking, all three of us! I hope doing this together will be fond memories for son as he grows up 🙂
I love pepperkaker, it is a seasonal favourite in this house as my wife is large part scandinavian and make sure that lots of it is prepared. I however am not much use with a rolling pin, compared to her.
Practice makes perfect, so you just get to it! And there are so many great tunes that help motivate (“They see me rollin..”) 😉
It’s not christmas without pepperkaker. In Norway the consumption of them in December is insanse! And you can get them anywhere, and so cheap it’s almost painful.
I take pride in making my own from scratch 🙂
In Victoria (BC) the local grocery store carries one brand – called Anna’s as it happens. My wife’s name begins with a Kj, which is very unusual in an English speaking context. That has to be one of the reasons we get so much pepperkaker at this at time of the year. Even her dolls make it (though they make gingerbread men, so its not really pepperkaker in that shape, is it?).
http://quimperhitty.wordpress.com/2011/12/18/gingerbread-factory/
Hm, name starting with KJ in Victoria, is anyone except her able to pronounce it correctly?
In my opinion pepperkaker are pepperkaker, as long as the recipe stays about the same. In my family the kakemenn are more likely to be shaped like men or women, while pepperkaker are any shape that usually not exceeds a (n approximate) 10cm diametre.
Nice dolls and nice blog!
Even she struggles to get it right. She says since her Faster Anna died many years ago, no one says her name right.
The sound is losing grounds in Norway as well, among my generation only a few can still hear the difference between the kj- and the skj-/sj- sounds. Language change!
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Love pepperkaker; my Swedish aunts always made these at Christmas and they have become a favorite of mine for enjoying with coffee – they keep well too. My mother passed on her recipe, very similar to yours. We always leave the dough to rest overnight; it seems to bring out the spicy flavor and makes it easier to roll out without sticking. Thanks for sharing this!
They should rest for a few days to really absorb the flavours of the spice, mine this year were made in a bit of a hurry… I have a different type though I’ll make as well, which I always make sure is left for at least a few days.
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