WHISK — Cookbooks at Volume

Sunday afternoon:
Thomas makes cinnamon buns from THE NORDIC BAKING BOOK by Magnus Nilsson.

This wonderful book contains recipes for many of the things I remember my Danish grandmother making (and me eating) when I was a child, but also hundreds of other cakes, breads, pastries and biscuits, with regional vartiations and Nilsson’s personable and illuminating commentary. We use the book frequently. On Sunday afternoon I made cinnamon buns, even though we still had cardamom cake (also from that book) left from Saturday.

Nilsson’s The Nordic Cookbook (which we also have) is similarly comprehensive, and provides insight into a wider swathe of Scandinavian food culture, with, again, hundreds of recipes and variations (and many more dishes from Farmor’s repertoire).