Recipes for Limpa Bread & St. Lucia Buns
My family is planning on having a Swedish breakfast on Christmas morning but are having some trouble finding reliable recipes for Limpa Bread and St. Lucia Buns. Do you, dear SE'ers, have any tried-and-true methods for either of these? (I know some S.L. buns contain saffron and some contain cardamom - either version is fine) Thanks in advance!
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3 Comments:
St. Lucia buns make me think of the American Girl dolls, specifically Kirsten, who was the daughter of Swedish immigrants. I didn't have her, so I don't know for sure, but there might be a recipe for them on the American Girl website, or maybe in an old catalogue. Was Google unhelpful?
kfarrel3 at 3:12PM on 12/16/08
Google searches have found many recipes, but I don't know if any of them can be trusted, so I thought I'd try to get some references here. Thanks for the advice though!
emmab at 3:50PM on 12/16/08
I just made Santa Lucia buns using the recpie posted on the Fresh Loaf discussion boards:
http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/4189/santa-lucia-bread#comment-26429
The ingredients listed are all originally swedish, but I was able to make appropriate substitutions as they discuss in the thread. I should note that I used a homemade sugar syrup instead of the "vit baksirap", but if you're in the states, you can use karo syrup instead of making stuff up like I do. :)
Good luck! the buns we made were a big hit!
scornell at 5:42AM on 12/21/08