![]() Lingonberries is by no way exclusive to Sweden or Scandinavia. Can it and keep it cool and dark preferably in the fridge. Put the berries in a bowl and add a little bit of sugar at a time while stirring with a wooden spoon, allowing the sugar to dissolve and the berries to get a bit moshy. It goes about 7 deciliter of sugar per kilo of berries. In Sweden we call it “rårörda lingon” meaning raw stirred lingonberries. There is a page at Wikipedia about this –įurther, there are at least two different kinds of lingonsnaps on sale in the Swedish state alcohol shop Systembolaget.įlossie: like Roger said there’s no cooking at all involved. Thanks to all the excellent comments from readers of this blog, I can now confirm that the Lingon Berry is more commonly known as a Cowberry in English. But then I am probably destroying years and years of Swedish culture.īut if you do know more about this fruit, please let me know! Personally I think it tastes good on bread, or mixed with vanilla ice cream. This jam is supposed to be eaten with meatballs, and apparently old people in Sweden eat a lot of it with meat.Their main use is in a kind of jam known as lingon sylt.Presumably they grow only in cold climates, hence the confusion of never having heard of it in English.Lingon berries are red and grow on low bushes in Swedish forests.The lingon berry is so little known in English that there’s not presently even a Wikipedia entry about these berries. So what, you ask, is a lingon berry? If you are Swedish and reading this, maybe you could comment and help me out a bit? ![]() One such complication in Sweden has been the lingon (-et) which literally translates as lingon berry. Matters that are more complex than translation difficulties. There are some small things about spending time in other countries that it’s just hard to get your head around.
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