Lentorama 2019: Resurrect My Globe!

Day 33: Sweden

Sweden's Easter celebrations are pretty similar to other Nordic countries. They have kids dressed as witches going door to door as in Finland, and those witches often bring letters to request candy, similar to what goes on in Denmark.  That being said, there are a couple of things that can make Easter particularly Swedish.

The first is going out to the country to open up the family cabin. Where Sweden is increasingly secular, there's more interest in using the long weekend to open up the summer cabin and give it a good cleaning. It also appears that what celebrations there are for Easter will happen there, as family and friends stop by for a meal and something to drink.

And the menu does include some traditionally Swedish dishes. One that stood out to me was Jansson's Temptation, which is a sort of casserole of onion, potato, and pickled anchovy. Not sure how tempting something with pickled anchovy can be, but it's a popular holiday dish (it also crops up at Christmas), so I'll take the Swedes' word for it. The other thing that caught my eye was a carbonated beverage called paskmust (which is the Easter version of julmust, the same drink but made for Christmas). It's similar to root beer in taste, but a review of the IKEA version suggests a much broader taste palate.