J.L. Runeberg's Day

Emma left to Kouvola with her team in the morning to play against Kouvot. Pyrinto girls were better and won the game 21-70. 
Statistics: http://www.basket.fi/sarjat/ottelu/?game_id=3557147&season_id=93647&league_id=9#mbt:2-400$t&0=1

The national poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg has been celebrated today 
with a jam-topped muffins that are named after him. It was time to have our annual Runeberg muffin tasting. We had candidates from five different bakeries. This time one muffin was clearly better than the others. 

The result is as follows:

1. Elonen = 16 points
2. Jokioisten leipä = 11 points
3. Leivon leipä = 10 points
4. Laitilan leipä =  9 points
5. Jussinhannan leipä  7 points


Links to previous years' results:
2016
2015
2014
2013


Tradition says that the recipe was invented by Mrs Fredrika Runeberg – heroic housewife, mother of seven, and a writer of some note herself – and that the sweet-toothed poet enjoyed them for breakfast, with a glass of sweet liqueur. But in truth these cylindrical cakes were first baked by a Porvoo innkeeper and confectioner, Lars Henrik Astenius, in the 1840s, and given Runeberg’s name when they became a favourite of the poet. Ekberg’s café in Helsinki began to sell ‘Runeberg’s tarts’ as early as 1856.


Here is one version of the recipe:

100g butter
1 dl caster sugar
1 egg
1 dl flour
1 dl breadcrumbs or crushed biscuits
1/2 dl ground almonds
1 tsp baking powder
1 drop bitter almond oil
To decorate, raspberry jam and icing:
1 tsp lemon juice
1 tbsp water
2-3 dl icing sugar


Makes 12.


Cream the margarine and the sugar. Add the egg, beating well. Season the mixture with the drop of bitter almond oil. Mix the remaining dry ingredients together and add them to the dough; mix well. Divide the dough into 12 muffin cases or a non-stick muffin pan and cook the cakes at 200°C for about 10 minutes. Allow to cool. (If you like your cakes moist, pour spoonfuls of a mixture of water and amaretto liqueur or rum over them; in the original recipe, it’s water and arrack liqueur) Mix the icing ingredients, make a circle of icing on the top of each cake, with a dollop of raspberry jam in the centre. Enjoy. 
http://www.booksfromfinland.fi/2010/02/let-us-eat-cake/


Our attic cleaning and organising project proceeded a bit. We bought new storage boxes from IKEA and hubby build new shelves. 


-6°C, cloudy