At the 13th of December the Swedes celebrate the Saint Lucy. I won´t bother you with the whole store, read more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lucy%27s_Day
What we did to celebrate Luciafesten was having a very traditional Christmas dinner, called “Julmiddag”, with our friends here from the university. One Swede of them prepared a very nice menu that we cooked then together. And it proved actually very tasty. So what was in there?
The Swedish Julmiddag is supposed to be something like this:
- Sweet Christmas bread (Jul Bröd)
- Boiled Eggs (Egg)
- Christmas Cheese (Jul Ost)
- Herring in Mustard-Dill-Sauce (Sill)
- Gingerbread cookies (Pepparkakor)
- Cheese-paste
- Popatoes (Potatis)
- Köttbullar
- Prince-Sausages (Prins Korv)
- Onion-Creme-Fraiché Sauce
- Mulled Wine (Glögg)
- Redbeet sallad
- And some additional sweets or dessert
Hope you have inspiration now for a nice Swedish dinner! (Unfortunately I have no picture of the meal.)
Before our dinner a classmate of us was singing with the university choir in the library. They sang traditional Swedish Lucia and Christmas songs. The most exciting thing is that one of the choir members wore a hat with candles on it. Every other member was holding candles, what made a very cozy setting in the Swedish winter darkness. 😉 Here you can have an impression how it looks and sounds: