There is a Time for Everything

When the wind is howling around the house it´s time to light up the fire. We live in a modern house and it has to bee minus-degrees outside before we can use the fire-place, otherwise it gets to hot indoors. But now it´s fire-time, and we lit it up in the mornings before we go to work and again in the evenings when we get home. And someone have to walk out in the cold and darkness to bring in more fire-wood...

A new pair of mittens is in progress, in Istex Létt-Lopi.

December is soon here, and so is Advent. It´s time to get out the Christmas-time recepies and get on with the baking for the season: here is the beginning of this years English Fruit Cake. The dried fruit is soaking i cognac before the actual cake-baking begins.

While the fruit is enjoying its bath, I continue with the very traditional baking of "lussebullar": wheat-dough spiced with saffron, that is formed into the shape of "lussekatter" and decorated with raisins.

The finished result: the 2010 batch of lussebullar! The time for this bun is between the first of Advent (on Sunday) and Christmas Eve, with a peak at Lucia ( December 13th). It´s totally improper to eat them at any other time of the year, it just isn´t done!