Vargtass is an alcoholic cocktail originating from the northern parts of Sweden and Finland. It consists of vodka and lingonberry juice, typically shaken together with ice. Lingonberries or lingonberry jam are sometimes added. A Vargtass Royal is a vargtass with the addition of sparkling wine. [1] Although lingonberries is the original choice, cranberries, sloe berries and aronia berries are possible alternatives. [2]
The literal meaning of vargtass is "wolf's paw".
Swedish cuisine is the traditional food of Sweden. Due to Sweden's large north-to-south expanse, there are regional differences between the cuisine of North and South Sweden.
A berry is a small, pulpy, and often edible fruit. Typically, berries are juicy, rounded, brightly colored, sweet, sour or tart, and do not have a stone or pit, although many pips or seeds may be present. Common examples are strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, red currants, white currants and blackcurrants. In Britain, soft fruit is a horticultural term for such fruits.
Vaccinium vitis-idaea, the lingonberry, partridgeberry, mountain cranberry or cowberry, is a small evergreen shrub in the heath family Ericaceae, that bears edible fruit. It is native to boreal forest and Arctic tundra throughout the Northern Hemisphere, from Europe and Asia to North America. Lingonberries are picked in the wild and used to accompany a variety of dishes preferably in Sweden alongside rest of Baltoscandia, Russia, Canada and Alaska. Commercial cultivation is undertaken in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and in many other regions of the world.
Finnish cuisine is notable for generally combining traditional country fare and haute cuisine with contemporary continental-style cooking. Fish and meat play a prominent role in traditional Finnish dishes in some parts of the country, while the dishes elsewhere have traditionally included various vegetables and mushrooms. Evacuees from Karelia contributed to foods in other parts of Finland in the aftermath of the Continuation War.
Uunijuusto is a Finnish dish made from cow's colostrum, the first milk of a calved cow, by adding a pinch of salt and by baking the milk in an oven. Sometimes uunijuusto is also made from ordinary milk and eggs. In Sweden, the dish is named kalvdans.
Cranberry sauce or cranberry jam is a sauce or relish made out of cranberries, commonly served as a condiment or a side dish with Thanksgiving dinner in North America and Christmas dinner in the United Kingdom and Canada. There are differences in flavor depending on the geography of where the sauce is made: in Europe it is generally slightly sour-tasting, while in North America it is typically more heavily sweetened.
Whortleberry may refer to the berries of several plants of genus Vaccinium:
Lingonberry jam is a staple of Northern European cuisine and otherwise highly popular in Central and Eastern Europe. Lingonberries grow on a short evergreen shrub in the Arctic tundra throughout the Northern Hemisphere from Eurasia to North America.
Matthew Charles Berry is an English actor, comedian, musician, and writer. He is best known for his roles in comedy series such as The IT Crowd, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, The Mighty Boosh, Snuff Box, What We Do in the Shadows, and Toast of London, the last of which he also co-created. The series earned him the 2015 BAFTA Award for Best Male Performance in a Comedy Programme. As a musician, he has released nine studio albums.
The name partridge berry is commonly applied to a number of plant species including:
Redberry or Red Berry may refer to:
Vispipuuro, russedessert (Norwegian), vispgröt/klappgröt/klappkräm or mannavaht is a sweet, wheat semolina (manna) dessert porridge made with berries, usually lingonberries. It is eaten in Finland, Norway, Sweden and Estonia. The semolina is cooked with the berries and also some kind of sweetener. Note that in Sweden, it's usually made by adding lingonberry cordial to the water, in which the semolina is cooked, as the texture is supposed to be smooth, so you don't want little bits of berries in the porridge. Alternatively, the berries are strained out before the semolina is added. After the mixture has cooled down, the porridge is vigorously whipped to a light, mousse-like consistency. Alternatively, the pot the porridge was made in, can be put in the kitchen sink, partially filled with cold water and whisked it in the pot, so it cools down while being whisked with a hand mixer. The dessert is usually served with milk and optionally sugar. Other berries and fruit that can be used are redcurrants, cranberries, apricots, gooseberries and strawberries.
A berry-picking rake or berry picker is a tool for collecting berries. Berry-picking rakes can be used to collect lingonberries, bilberries, currants, and other berries. The rake may damage softer berries, and introduces some detritus, requiring cleaning of the berries afterwards. If misused, it may also damage or uproot the plants, reducing next year's yields. Despite these drawbacks, a rake has much greater efficiency than picking by hand and is thus used in all commercial berry picking - though modern large-scale farms use mechanical harvesters.
Mors is a non-carbonated Russian fruit drink prepared from berries, mainly from lingonberry and cranberry. It is made by boiling berries with sugar or honey and lemon juice, or by mixing pure juice with sweetened water. Some modern commercial brands use fermented and clarified juices blending with sugar syrup and drinking water. Instead of juice, fruit extracts may be used with the addition of aromatic essences, organic food acids, sugars, dyes, and drinking water.
Äggakaka(English: Egg cake) is a traditional Scanian dish that is similar to kolbullar or oven pancake (ugnspankaka), that is served with fried slices of pork belly and lingon berries. It used to be made for farmworkers as it was easy to wrap up and eat out on the fields.
Cathal Berry is an Irish Independent politician and retired soldier who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Kildare South constituency since the 2020 general election.
Blossa is a trademark for glögg owned by Anora Group which is the most sold glögg in Sweden. There are 11 kinds of glögg in the selection, and also an annual seasonal glögg since 2003. In the early 1950s Vin & Spirit produced 750 thousand litres of glögg per year and in 2009 the company sold 4.1 million litres per year.
Lingonberry juice is juice made of lingonberries. Lingonberry juice does not need preservatives like other juices as lingonberries contain benzoic acid.
