McJonsson Bread

2 c bread flour
1 c wheat flour
2 tsp yeast
1 tsp salt
5 tsp sugar
1/3 c buttermilk
1-1/2 c lukewarm water

Mix first 6 ingredients together in a mixing bowl.
Add water.Stir them together until gooey.

Cover  with damp towel and let dough sleep for 12-20 hrs.

After sleeping, the no knead bread dough should look frothy and bubbly.

Dump out on lightly floured surface.

Wet your hands. This will prevent the very sticky dough from sticking to your hands.

Turn dough blob over so that you get a nice, smooth, tight surface.

Tuck the dough and put dough in bread pan. Let rise until double in size for another 2 hours.

Preheat oven to 450F for 30 minutes or longer.

Dust dough lightly with flour before  putting in the oven. Bake  for 30 minutes until crust is golden brown.

Cool on rack. Best with butter and Kalles.

Flaskpannkaka

Flaskpannkaka recipe, Swedish oven pancake best with bacon and lingonberry-jam.

1 c Wheat Flour
2 c  Milk
pinch of Salt
3 tbs Butter
3 Eggs
1 c Bacon

1. Start with the batter, mix the flour and the salt. Add the milk, pour it over the mixture slowly to avoid lumps. Finally whisk down the eggs.

2. Preheat oven to 175 celcius. Line the bottom of an oven tray with strips of bacon  and teaspoon of butter. Put in oven for 5 minutes of until bacon turns golden brown.

3. Carefully pour over the batter and make it sure it's evenly divided over the tray.

4. Continue baking in the oven for approximately 25 minutes at 225 celcius or 437 fahrenheit until firm and golden.

 I like this best served with my favorite jam and a glass of red grape juice.

Jordgubbstårta- a Swedish midsummer cake.

Jordgubbstårta - a Swedish midsummer cake.

how to make the base cake:

2c cake flour mix with 2 tbsp baking powder
2c sugar
4 eggs
2 tsps of butter
2 tsps of bread crumb


1. Preheat oven to 180C
2. Prepare ingredients.
3. Beat eggs until light.
4. Gradually put in sugar and continue beating.
5. Fold in flour mixture until smooth consistency.
6. Generously grease with butter your 10 inch cake tin.
7. Sprinkle bread crumbs on the tin, making sure all sides and bottom surface of cake tin is covered.
8. Pour mixture and bake for 45 minutes or until golden brown and toothpick comes out clean.
9. Let cool before placing in wire rack.



how to make the strawberry topping

2 c strawberries
3 c whipping cream
3 tbsp sugar
1/2 c vanilla custard ( I used premium French vanila custard)

1. Slice 1 cup of strawberries. Set aside for cake topping.
2. Chop and dice  the rest of the strawberries. Set aside.
3. Whisk cream and sugar until frothy.
4. In a separate bowl, mix the chopped strawberries and 1 cup of whipped  cream.

How to assemble the Jordgubbstårta
1. Slice cake into three layers.
2. First prepare bottom layer. Spread vanilla custard.
3. Place the second layer on top of vanilla layer.
4. Spread the strawberry whipped cream on the second layer.
5. Place the top layer on top of strawberry cream.
6. Use the remaining whipped cream to generously cover the whole cake.
7. Arrange strawberry slices on top of the cake.

Happy Midsummer cake for everyone.