Though it's easy to find a wide variety of international cuisines in Stockholm, try to seek out ... custard covered with green marzipan), or saffron buns (pastries made with golden saffron and ...

So I’ve had a yearning the past couple of years to figure out how to make saffron buns for St. Lucia Day ... celebrated event in the 1920s when Stockholm declared an official “Lucia ...

"Someone dresses as Lucia and serves coffee and saffron bullar (buns)." Sponsor Message Dressing ... Mission at Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Sweden's embrace of Lucia might be about ...

A Stockholm baker talked us through the saffron bun-making process. Photo: Tim Marringa/The Local In the first entry for 2022's The Local Advent Calendar, we share a recipe for classic Swedish saffron ...

In Sweden, saffron buns were established as a high-status baked good by the 1600s, and often featured at the funeral banquets of prominent individuals, according to Lena Kättström Höök, curator at ...

For introverts, it’s really nice to stay at home a lot.” Lussekatter (St. Lucia’s Day Saffron Buns) For Bengsston and her fellow Swedes — as well as Norwegians and English-speaking Finns ...

festive scents of saffron buns, kanelbulle, gingerbread cookies and glögg permeate many a town. “We drink glögg around that time,” says Bengtsson, a Stockholm native. “It pairs well with ...