Last fall, a friend called his friends home urgently saying they were overflowing with apples.

My friend's house was a detached house, but there were a lot of apple trees in the yard.

It is said that there are 80 trees, so the amount of apples harvested was enormous.

(SOS



was good enough

.)

There aren't many houses with so many apple trees, but most houses in Finland have about a single apple tree.

However, after hearing from a friend that my grandparents had planted a lot of apple trees to prepare for famine, the common apple tree began to look a little special.

In fact, I had never thought of apples as an oral crop before then.

I wasn't sure that Finland, now considered a wealthy country, was a country worried about hunger until the early and mid-20th century.



A search on the Internet revealed that people who have actually lived in southern Finland since the late 19th century planted apple trees in their homes in case of famine.

Finland suffered several terrible famines from the 17th century to the early mid-20th century, and in severe cases it even lost a third of Finland's population.

Moss, dandelion, birch leaves, tree roots, and so on were often used to live life. In particular, pettuleipä, which was eaten with pine bark powder, was a representative oral food in Finland.

Cutting the bark of pine trees, drying them, and grinding them into powder was not only a difficult labor, but it was embarrassing to the proud Finns, so it was said that they worked in hiding.

Ironically, now, this bread is classified as a high-quality bread because it contains low calories and rich in nutrients, and is sold at a high price.



After the mid-1960s, it was only after the rapid development of industry that Finland was able to solve the problem of hunger.

(Finnish feeling!) A little over half a century later, the Finns now have the most obese population in Northern Europe, so they are nicknamed'North American Americans'.

First of all, these are huge eaters.

Anyone who has ordered food in Finland will feel it, but one serving in Finland is equivalent to 2-3 servings of us.

'How did people who eat so much endure the famine in the past?'

Even though I wanted to, I thought,'Because I was too hungry at the time, there might have been a genetic mutation that I drove all at once'.

Anyway, in the past, you may have eaten apples that are hungry and'tear wet', but now they are eaten for dessert for taste.

My personal favorite among apple desserts is the Finnish apple pie and oven-baked apples.



Before coming to Finland, the apple pie I knew was a typical pie that was baked in a crispy, sweet crust wrapped in apples.

But the apple pie I tasted in Finland was very different.

It feels like a fluffy and sweet apple bread rather than a pie?

Along with apples, flour, butter, and milk are added, but if you add yogurt and sour cream instead of milk, you can feel a deeper taste.




Apples, which have a strong sour taste, are better suited to pies than sweet.

This is because the sour taste of apples and the sweet taste of sugar go well together.

You can experience a world of thrilling new tastes opened by'Dansi Dansi', which is second to'Sweet Salt'.

Freshly baked pies double their flavor when eaten with cold vanilla ice cream.

This is because the taste is transmitted from play to pole by penetrating the'between coolness and passion'.



In addition to apple pie,'oven-baked apples' (Finnish: Uuni Omena) are also popular desserts.

The biggest virtue of this dessert is that it's so easy to make that it's half the case with an oven.

Oven-baked apples seem to be the best food compatibility when eaten with vanilla ice cream when they are hot.

Even at this moment of closing this article, I am drooling like a'Pavlov's Dog'.

I must have noticed the time has come for my body to remake the apple pie and eat it.



<Finnish apple pie>


Ingredients:


400 ml of sliced ​​apples (2 to 3 pieces)


350 ml of gravity flour


200

ml of

sugar


1 teaspoon of vanilla flavor


1/2 tablespoon of baking powder


200 ml of sour cream (plain yogurt) 100 g of


melted butter


1 tablespoon of cinnamon powder and 2 tablespoons of sugar ( It is necessary to sprinkle it on the apple pie) How to



make:


1. Mix the gravitational flour, sugar, vanilla flavor, and baking powder well.


2. Mix yogurt and melted butter together.

Mix only enough to mix all the ingredients evenly and do not stir.


3. Spread parchment paper or paint it with butter on the bowl to bake the pie.


4.

Put the

prepared dough in the pie bowl.


5. Peeled and thinly sliced ​​apples are evenly arranged on top of them, and sugar and cinnamon powder are sprinkled on top of them.


6. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes in an oven preheated to 200 degrees (lower part possible).



<Oven-baked apples>


Ingredients:


6 apples


150 ml oatmeal


50

ml

brown sugar


1 teaspoon

cinnamon

powder

50


g butter



How to make:


1. Wash the apples well and cut out the inside with a knife or special tool.

(Be careful not to cut out all the way to the bottom of the tier)


2. Arrange the apples in an oven-only bowl painted with butter.


3. Mix the rest of the ingredients well and put them into the apples, then put a little on top.


3. Cook in an oven preheated to 200 degrees for 25 minutes.

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