Cultured Palate: Dishes from Finland
| June 14, 2017
Puolukkapiirakka
If you look at the dishes of Finnish cuisine, you won’t see much fruit. That’s because its remoteness and cold climate has made both importing and growing fruit quite difficult. Instead, Finns focus on berries, which grow in even the remotest areas, as the inspiration for their best desserts. Puolukkapiirakka is a pie made of lingonberries, which can be quite bitter if eaten on its own. Generally, the bitterness is cut with a generous dollop of whipped cream. Another traditional pie is mustikkapiirakka, made from blueberries.
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