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Mother's Day in Norway Falls on Valentine's Day, too in 2021 (Feb. 14)

1/24/2021

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Recipe for Blotkake to Celebrate Mother's Day

 I hope you and your loved ones had a lovely Christmas and New Year, even though things were quite different. It was quiet where I live, so I Facetimed with my kids and grandkids and shared the love that way.Thank you all for your patronage in 2020, and I hope you truly enjoy your lefse and Scandinavian baking tools.
     Now it is time to think about other upcoming holidays. Surprise Mom on Norwegian Mother's Day, February 14, with a decadent dessert (or make it for Valentine's Day!). Thanks to Sunny with her blog "Arctic Grub" for the info below:
     Norwegians love their mothers and show it with lovely cakes and sweets (made by mothers?!?) for their special day. In Norway, the first Mother’s Day was celebrated on February 9th, 1919 in Bergen, and was initially celebrated by religious groups, but it was the Oslo women Dorothea Schjoldager and  Karen Platou who, in 1919, in conjunction with fitting organizations, business people and mass media, were successful in establishing Mother’s Day as a national holiday in Norway. This year, Mother's Day is February 14.
     Typically, families will make a special cake (or five, we are Norwegians, after all) in honor of Mother’s Day, as well as serving mom breakfast in bed. I chose the traditional Norwegian cream cake “bløtkake”.  This is a cake to be made on days like Mother’s Day, 17th of May (Norway’s Independence Day), weddings and confirmations. Festive, pretty and decadent all in one, it’s a symbol of celebration and perfect for the most important person in our world!
Click here for the recipe for Blotkake, courtesy of our friends at North Wild Kitchens.
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    Hi, I'm Denise, and I've been making Scandinavian memories with my family for--well--longer than I want to talk about here. Each family has someone who wants to learn how to make lefse or krumakake. Which one is it in your family? Pass on the heritage by making memories together in the kitchen. Its a blast!

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