Cookbooks

Known as “Sju sorters kakor” in Sweden, this popular cookbook is a modern classic. It features cookies, sweet breads, butter cakes, tortes and other delights of the Swedish dessert table. The first edition came out in 1945, right after the war with its years of rationing, when home cooks were exicted about baking again. Over the years it has been continuously modernized and improved so that today’s edition, with almost 300 recipes, is a combination of new, modern cakes, cookies and pastries, as well as classic favorites. Prize-winning recipes from earlier editions are noted. Ingredients are common and easy to find, and if not, substitutions are suggested. For those with dietary concerns, there's an index directing you to 33 gluten-free, 8 sugar-free, and 54 egg-free recipes. Over 3.4 million copies of this exciting cookbook have sold in Sweden over the years. Every easy-to-follow recipe is accompanied by a color picture of the finished treat. 

Over 100 recipes divided into mouthwatering categories. You'll find everything from thumbprint cookies, sandwich cookies, holiday twists perfect for a cookie swap, chocolate decadence and everything in between. With tried-and-tested recipes and beautiful photography as your guide, explore the glorious world of holiday baking from your home kitchen.

256 pages. Hardcover.

Let Brontë Aurell of The ScandiKitchen Café show you how to celebrate your Christmas Scandi-style by sharing her delicious recipes and family traditions with you.

Anyone who has ever been in Scandinavian in December will know that Scandinavians really love Christmas. From huddling up in candlelit snowed-in cottages to consuming glögg at every opportunity, Christmas is peak-hygge season all over Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Everything reverts back to tradition once Advent Sunday has come along.

From saffron scented bakes to “gingerbread spice in everything!”, Christmas is the time to break the never-ending darkness with edible treats and joyful feelings. Scandinavians visit friends and families taking along something home baked to share. They have Jul-Smörgåsbord parties where old and young celebrate with a spread of traditional dishes and delicacies. Everything they do for Jul is centered around food, tradition, and home comforts.

Join Brontë and feel the warmth, even when it’s cold outside!

Brontë Aurell is a Danish cook, author, entrepreneur, and restaurateur. She runs two ScandiKitchen Cafés in Central London and is owner of ScandiKitchen food imports (supplying food businesses across the UK). Brontë has been published widely in national magazines and newspapers, including The Guardian, The Times, and Olive. Brontë and her food have also featured on BBC Radio, Channel 4, and Danish TV.

160 pages.  Hardcover.

From smörgåsbord and St. Lucia processions to Christmas Eve gatherings with family and friends, Swedish Americans are linked through the generations by a legacy of meatballs and lutfisk.

Traditional food and cooking in 25 authentic dishes. Discover the distinctive delights of Scandinavian cuisine with recipes featuring cured salmon and pickled herring, rich earthy mushrooms, lingonberry and cloudberry conserves, and wild game meats from venison to reindeer. By Anna Mosesson. Hardback. 64 pages. 

Gourmet cook, Beatrice Ojakangas, shares recipes from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland for hearty breads, delicate pastries, and irresistible savory main course pies, pastries, and stuffed breads. In addition to mouthwatering recipes, you'll find information on Scandinavian traditions, along with plenty of helpful tips. 

A Love Letter to the Baking of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden

Simply Scandinavian is a beautifully inspiring collection of easy and delicious recipes.

In a nod to the Scandinavian way of eating, this book offers over 80 unpretentious and straightforward dishes with a focus on ease of cooking and seasonality. By showing just how achievable it is to get amazing flavors out of a handful of good ingredients, Trine creates solutions for easy breakfasts, vegetable-forward mid-week meals and simple but impressive ways to entertain family and friends. This is an uncomplicated and greener way to cook and eat, from an expert in Scandinavian cookery.

Trine Hahnemann is a Danish chef and food writer and an enthusiastic advocate for sustainable solutions, organic sourcing, and food cooked with love. With her great knowledge of Danish food and food culture, she writes for and appears regularly in the media in America and Britain. Trine has written several cookbooks both in her native Danish and in English, including Scandinavian Comfort Food, Scandinavian Green and Copenhagen Food, winner of the Guild of Food Writers award for International or Regional Cookbook.

Hardcover.

Size: 5.5 x 3.75 x 0.5

Kerstin Olsson Van Gilder came to America from Sweden in 1961 and brought her recipes with her. She refers to Swedish foods as “cooking the naturally delicious way.”

She shares more than one hundred of those recipes in this volume, presented in convenient, recipe-card-size pages with a spiral binder. Among the recipes are ones for glogg, black soup, ham rolls, crayfish, Swedish meatballs, potato dumplings, Swedish pastry, and cocoa balls.