A well known treat in Denmark for Christmas is ‘pebernødder’ or
directly translated pepper nuts! Danes offer them during Christmas and sometimes they put them in small paper baskets
and hang them on their Christmas tree. There is actually neither pepper
nor nuts in them, but a lot of spices and they look like nuts.
Do you
want to try to make them yourselves? We found a simple recipe for you to try!
Ingredients:
1 cup butter, room temperature
1 cup packed brown/white sugar
2 eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking powder plus 1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. freshly ground cardamom
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. ginger
1/2 tsp. cloves
1 teaspoon salt
Instructions:
1) Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. 2) Beat the butter and sugar together in a mixing bowl until light and fluffy. Mix in the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each. Stir in the cardamom, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and salt until well blended. Mix in the flour, one cup at a time, the baking soda and baking powder until the dough gathers together. With floured hands, pinch off small, 1/2 teaspoon amounts of dough, roll into tiny balls, and place on a baking sheets (you will probably need more than one). 3) Bake in preheated oven until bottom of cookies are light tan, 10 to 12 minutes. Cool 15 minutes on baking sheets. Store in an airtight container.
A group of people in #Cphare in the process of gathering and sending things to Lesbos in a container to the refugees in need there so if you're interested in contributing read on.
It's just everyday people, no NGOS involved or anything of the sort. The organisers are doing everything from collecting the actual things needed to funding the amount needed for the container.
How can you help???
1) Things needed:
They are currently collecting and sorting out a whole bunch of things which are necessary for the refugees who are arriving on a daily basis.
They need a lot of things ranging from:
Baby diapers
Feminine pads
Toys rubber or plastic
Big bags (for eg. IKEA)
Canned food (beans, corn, tuna, fruit etc.) with the ring on the can. Doubt they're carrying can openers.
Clothing
Used clean clothing and shoes.
Please be kind to classify thm in boxes or bags if possible and label with
Man
Woman
Boys
Girls
Baby Keep in mind weather , so rain clothing or protection would be great. Baby sun hats are in demand too. The deadline for delivering things is Tuesday September 1, 18.00 in Copenhagen and yes it is possible to contribute if you live outside Copenhagen too! see more info here: www.deppeandthelostsock.com You can drop the stuff off at The Little Things on Vesterbrogade 161 until further notice. Ask for Anne. Opening hours: weekdays: 10 – 17 & Saturday: 10 – 14
2) Give 5, 10, 30 DKK or any amount you can for the delivery costs:
Mobile Pay: 53 64 64 25 write LESBOS and your name
Bank Transfer: Reg: 4434 Konto: 4440646190
The Danes love liquorice. They love it.
The chew it, they eat it, they cook with it, they consider it a candy, they put it in chocolate, in your lunch, in your drinks, everywhere! When you eat something you always need to pray that it will not contain liquorice. I have a colleague sitting next to me. Each time i will go to the toilet or to a meeting without my glass of water, he will throw a tiny piece of liquorice in it just to tease me. His name is S. and one day i will get my revenge.
I repeat: The Danes love liquorice.They are obsessed with it.
We will never understand why. Never.
The only thing we can do is observe them and accept this fact.
Denmark.dk visited the world´s smallest liquorice
factory "LAKRIDS" in Tåstrup, DK and filmed how they produce this salty
substance which Danes love so much.
Here is the video:
Aebleskiver is a Danish
dessert, somewhat similar in texture to American pancakes but light and fluffy like a donut. Traditionally
served with glogg during December. Cooked in a cast iron pan that
resembles an egg poacher. Served hot with syrup, jam or powdered sugar.
The
pleated Christmas heart is a special Danish tradition.It is said that the famous Danish author Hans Christian Andersen invented the braided heart, since the oldest known gloss paper heart was made by him in the 1860s. Christmas hearts
consist of 2 pieces of glossy paper, which are braided together.
The video below shows you how to make your own Julehjerte - enjoy it :)
Risalamande
is a dessert traditionally served on Christmas Eve in Denmark. It is a kind of rice pudding, usually served cold and warm cherry sauce is poured on top (kirsebærsauce).
Portioned from a large bowl at
the end of the Christmas dinner, a whole almond is hidden in the bowl of
the pudding. The one who finds the almond wins a gift. The fun is to
hide the almond in your mouth as long as possible so that people will
keep taking seconds and thirds in an attempt to find the almond and
win.
Have you ever tried Risalamande? Time to make your own! Kathrine from Metropolitan University College shows us how to make Danish rice pudding in the below video - enjoy it :)
"Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) is an outstanding artist and a passionate power
woman. Strong and independent, she is an inspirational role model. The
exhibition offers a look at Kahlo’s oeuvre through a number of her most
iconic self-portraits, drawings, pages from her diary as well as jewelry
and dresses from her time. The works reflect her tragic life, embracing
a horrible traffic accident and countless surgeries, tormented love for the artist Diego Rivera, affairs with both men and women, miscarriages and childlessness, as well as political activism."
We visited Arken and we highly recommend a visit.
Writing this post, we are debating as to whether it should just be a tribute to Frida Kahlo or to Arken and its various very interesting exhibitions (even for those who do not get along with art).
We have decided to just stay objective :)
1941: Novelist, essayist, publisher and critic Virginia Woolf, puts on her coat, filled its pockets with stones, walked into the River Ouse near her home, and drowned herself. In her last note to her husband she wrote:
"...If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has
gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling
your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier
than we have been."
2011: Florence and the Machine have a new song. The title (i.e. "What the water gave me") is inspired by a painting of Frida Kahlo and the lyrics from Virginia Woolf's suicide...
