Berlitz Pocket Guide Helsinki by Berlitz Publishing

Author:Berlitz Publishing
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Travel, Finland
Publisher: Apa Publications
Published: 2017-12-13T05:00:00+00:00

Tinned reindeer meat

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Speciality food

Finland is a large country, and all kinds of regional delicacies have evolved over the years. Many make their way to Helsinki: look out for Tampere’s mustamakkara (“black sausage”), which contains spices, barley and blood in real gut; delicious Karelian pasties, filled with buttery rice; the strange, “squeaky” cheese leipäjuusto, from the northwest coast, often eaten with yellow cloudberries; and bear meat and reindeer stew (poronkäristys) from Lapland.

Christmas food in Finland is very traditional, and still very much loved, in spite of being rather simple by today’s standards. Little has changed on the festive menu over the past century: ham, salmon, casseroles and dried codfish always feature, and there are plenty of desserts, including ginger biscuits and the popular star-shaped plum tart, joulutorttu. At Easter, Finns consume mämmi (a malt-based pudding) and drink sima (mead), while tippaleipä pastries are the May Day speciality. Festival times apart, Finnish food varies both seasonally and geographically, making it an endless source of fascination and providing pleasant surprises for visitors to the country.

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