Any Home Bakers Here?

[wyoDreamer]

Reminds me of the joke a friend from Osseo, Wi told me - big Norwegian/Swedish area. The local Norwegians and Swede's had an ice-fishing contest on the local lake and the Swedes won. The Norwegians are claiming that the Swede's cheated - they drilled holes in the ice ...

 

[N F C]

Reminds me of the joke a friend from Osseo, Wi told me - big Norwegian/Swedish area. The local Norwegians and Swede's had an ice-fishing contest on the local lake and the Swedes won. The Norwegians are claiming that the Swede's cheated - they drilled holes in the ice ...

 

[BakerGirl]

Jag talar inte Svenska....

I have Norwegian ancestry, some went to Minnesota. I believe there are lots of scandinavians/scandinavian descendents there. (and now I'm thinking about a trip to Ikea for some meatballs LOL). All this thread does is encourage me to want things to eat.

Jag lär mig svenska.

My morfar (grandfather on mother's side) was from Norway, and my mormor (grandmother on mother's side) was from Sweden. Minnesota is called the Land of 10,000 Swedes. Really it's 10,000 lakes....

 

[BakerGirl]

Reminds me of the joke a friend from Osseo, Wi told me - big Norwegian/Swedish area. The local Norwegians and Swede's had an ice-fishing contest on the local lake and the Swedes won. The Norwegians are claiming that the Swede's cheated - they drilled holes in the ice ...

I haven't heard that one yet. Funny!

 

[User395221]

Jag lär mig svenska.

I used to work with a Swedish woman, I learnt a few bits then. I got a tape I'd listen to in the car. The thing with languages is that you need to practise and when there's nobody to talk to, you can't. Italian or Greek or, nowadays, asian languages, would be easier to find someone to practise with, but Swedish? Nobody. And just about everybody in Sweden is better at English than we are, so there's not a lot of imperative to learn it.

I find it interesting to see what influences the immigrants have brought to the cooking in an area. Minnesota=scandinavian influence; Texas=Mexican etc. Very big Greek immigrant community in Melbourne, lots of Greek cooking over there.

I love "heavy" bread, dense sourdough, rye bread, pumpernickel (is pumpernickel actually bread?). Anywhere with a scandinavian or german population/background will likely have my favourites (although a baguette is pretty yummy, and so is crusty Italian bread). If I was put in an old-fashioned prison and fed bread and water, I'd be pretty happy as long as it was nice bread.

 

[N F C]

I used to work with a Swedish woman, I learnt a few bits then. I got a tape I'd listen to in the car. The thing with languages is that you need to practise and when there's nobody to talk to, you can't. Italian or Greek or, nowadays, asian languages, would be easier to find someone to practise with, but Swedish? Nobody. And just about everybody in Sweden is better at English than we are, so there's not a lot of imperative to learn it.

I find it interesting to see what influences the immigrants have brought to the cooking in an area. Minnesota=scandinavian influence; Texas=Mexican etc. Very big Greek immigrant community in Melbourne, lots of Greek cooking over there.

I love "heavy" bread, dense sourdough, rye bread, pumpernickel (is pumpernickel actually bread?). Anywhere with a scandinavian or german population/background will likely have my favourites (although a baguette is pretty yummy, and so is crusty Italian bread). If I was put in an old-fashioned prison and fed bread and water, I'd be pretty happy as long as it was nice bread.

Too funny!

I bet today's prisoners get Wonder Bread...now that's some real punishment!

 

[BakerGirl]

I used to work with a Swedish woman, I learnt a few bits then. I got a tape I'd listen to in the car. The thing with languages is that you need to practise and when there's nobody to talk to, you can't. Italian or Greek or, nowadays, asian languages, would be easier to find someone to practise with, but Swedish? Nobody. And just about everybody in Sweden is better at English than we are, so there's not a lot of imperative to learn it.

I find it interesting to see what influences the immigrants have brought to the cooking in an area. Minnesota=scandinavian influence; Texas=Mexican etc. Very big Greek immigrant community in Melbourne, lots of Greek cooking over there.

I love "heavy" bread, dense sourdough, rye bread, pumpernickel (is pumpernickel actually bread?). Anywhere with a scandinavian or german population/background will likely have my favourites (although a baguette is pretty yummy, and so is crusty Italian bread). If I was put in an old-fashioned prison and fed bread and water, I'd be pretty happy as long as it was nice bread.

My mom spoke Swedish before English. My boyfriend lives in Sweden too. I have them to practice with.

 

[User395221]

I bet today's prisoners get Wonder Bread...now that's some real punishment!

I bet they get horrible spongy white bread (is that what Wonder Bread is?), but it they gave out a baguette or a nice hunk of german rye, I could be banged up with that. LOL

 

[N F C]

I bet they get horrible spongy white bread (is that what Wonder Bread is?), but it they gave out a baguette or a nice hunk of german rye, I could be banged up with that. LOL

Yep, Wonder Bread is spongy white bread. Only prisoners probably get the generic kind, lol.

 

[cluckcluckgirl]

One of my first times making bread, I was actually upset that it was so dense and thick, unlike the store bought bread.

I soon came to learn that mine is natural, and I have absolutely no clue how they make theirs.