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So, Easter came and went rather quickly this year and kept me way too busy
to focus on cooking anything surplus. In addition, I'm currently studying for
a new profession (which has nothing to do with cooking nor photography,
unfortunately...), which is keeping me rather busy Monday to Friday.
Now that it's weekend, it's another week of studying behind me once again
and I can certainly feel it, even though this week we only had four days
of studying, since Monday was Easter, but still... I'm definitely in a need
of a break (thank God it's weekend!), so I'll have the energy to continue
studying next week without an issue.
Even still, I decided to cook something Easter-related with a week's delay
now that I had time for it yesterday. This time I decided to make cookies, but
not just any of your ordinary cookies, but cookies made with mämmi;
Mämmi cookies or dogshit cookies, as I called them, based on what they
looked like on the baking tray before baking in the oven.
Mämmi is a traditional Finnish dessert eaten especially around Easter.
It's believed to originate from Southwest Finland and has likely been consumed
since the Middle Ages. Mämmi is made with water, rye malts, rye flour, ground
Seville orange (bitter orange) zest and salt. The mixture of water, rye malts and
rye flour is often left to sweeten before it's baked in the oven. As such, mämmi
is served cold, usually with sugar and milk or cream (sometimes even with vanilla sauce).
The making of mämmi is a hours long procedure and nowadays in Finland, it's seldom
made from scratch at home and usually bought pre-made from a store. The mämmi used
in this recipe is also pre-made, but there will be a link below for those wanting to try and
make mämmi from scratch. There are also many other recipes for mämmi available online
in Finnish and English, if you do an online search.
Last year marked the first time I personally tasted mämmi and I'll just say,
it's pretty much an acquired taste (though depends on the individual) and
not necessarily always appreciated by non-Finnish people (or even by some
Finnish people) who try it (such as Gordon Ramsay). Even I needed to get
myself used to the taste at first, but I was still able to eat it along with the
sugar and cream (or vanilla sauce), as long as I didn't take too big of a spoonful
of it at one go. This year, as I tasted mämmi, it was already much easier to eat it,
despite the fact I haven't eaten any since last year's Easter.
The cookies tasted alright and smelled pretty much like mämmi or rye bread.
Since the mämmi is mixed with other ingredients in order to make these cookies,
it doesn't taste as strong. And someone who's already used to the taste of
mämmi, should have no bigger problems eating these cookies, at least
when it comes to the taste of mämmi in the cookies. The dough was enough
for 17 cookies on my part.
The recipe used here is mostly based on this one brought to us by the Finnish K-ruoka,
with some alternations from my part. The original recipe by K-ruoka also says that you
can make these cookies with 700 g (one box) of mämmi instead of 350 g (half-a-box)
by doubling the rest of the ingredients and baking four patches of them in the oven.
INGREDIENTS
for about 15–17 cookies
350 g mämmi
1 egg
100 g margarine
100 g dark chocolate
2 ½ dl wheat flour
1 dl brown sugar
1 dl sugar
1 tsp baking powder
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Measure the margarine into a bowl and melt it in
a microwave using a low temperature for about 3 minutes.
2. Measure the dry ingredients into a separate bowl and mix them.
3. Grind or crush the dark chocolate into tiny pieces, add them
into the bowl containing the dry ingredients and mix.
4. Add the mämmi into the bowl with the melted margarine and mix.
5. Add the egg into the bowl and mix.
6. Add the dry ingredients slowly into the bowl by phases and mix.
7. When the dough is ready, take a baking tray, place a kitchen
parchment onto it and using two spoons start raising the dough
out of the bowl, making small lumps onto the baking tray.
Remember to leave some space between the lumps, so the cookies
won't end up sticking together as easily. One baking sheet should
be enough for nine cookies at most, so you'll likely need another
baking sheet to bake the rest of the cookies.
8. Bake the cookies in the oven at 200°C for about 20 minutes.
Take them out once they look good enough and have spread/
risen. Don't let them get burned.
9. Let the cookies cool down for a while before serving.
NOTES
As said, there are many possible recipes for mämmi found online in Finnish and in English.
Here's one recipe in English brought to you again by K-Ruoka.
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