While I was in Sweden teaching for two years, I also had lots of other interests including baking and cooking. This included the following dishes:

Rice and Prawn Dish

Mushrooms fried in lots of butter

Boiled rice according to the number of people

Mix rice, mushrooms and curry powder according to taste

Crab meat

Large packet peeled prawns

approx. 300ml cream

1.5 teaspoons arrowroot

and salt and pepper

1 pk. grated cheese - emmental

and a little parmesan

Mix through all of the ingredients

Warm through slowly in the oven c. 150 – 175 for about twenty minutes to half an hour.        

Kola Tarta

Mix together 2 eggs, 300g of sugar and 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar.

Add  3 – 4 tablespoons of cocoa, mix in ½ teaspoon salt and 100g of melted butter. Then mix in 150g of a litre of flour and ½ teaspoon baking powder.

Place in a cake tin and in the oven, at 175 C, for about 35-40 minutes.

Tosca Tarta

2 eggs

150g sugar

200g flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

50ml cream

75g margarine

Mix all of these ingredients together.

Icing

50g margarine

50g sugar

1 tablespoon flour

1 teaspoon cream

50g flaked almonds

Whip eggs and sugar.  Add flour, baking powder,  cool melted margarine and cream and stir.  Put it in a round form.

Put it in the oven, 175 C for 20 minutes

Meanwhile make the icing.  Mix all ingredients in a saucepan and gently warm until is it all mixed and thickened

Spread the icing over the cake

Bake the cake for 10 minutes more or until it has a bit more colour.

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