Thor's Tart

I might be running out of this Finnish emojis, at least the quality ones, but since local cuisine has been quite a hot debate during the Challenge, I decided to throw something from Finland in to the mix. Yes, it is not Thor's Tart, but the topic sounds nice - at least in my Finnish ear... Joulutorttu translates to "Christmas Tart" and usually you buy the ready made frozen dough "plates" from the local store. You cut them in half, make some cuts on the corners, add plum jam in the middle and then turn every second corner to the middle and put them in the oven. And when it is ready, you might sprinkle some powdered sugar on top of it and eat. Then you burn your mouth, because the jam is so hot. There are some variations, you can make the cuts in different ways or you can use apple jam or some marmelade instead of plum jam. You still burn your mouth, though. A lot of these are eaten during winter, especially around Christmas.

:joulutorttu:

JOULUTORTTU

The feeling of having one too many.

The ‘joulutorttu’, a Christmas pastry, is served every Christmas, everywhere. Every year you burn your mouth on the first one – beware of the plum jam in the middle! The sweet taste and nostalgia make up for it.

----- End of Finn talking about Finland -----

Well, let's see what we have today from our Thor's Day crew, before the Friday team jumps in couple of hours early... :) We seem to have at least five fine entries today!

• Arthur presents as some intelligent lizardmen from fantasy land
• Martijn goes through the memory lane with smallish infantrymen
• Ray has a new monk and some historical floppy hats - but the hats aren't that floppy
• Martin crashes his target with little bit of everything
• Bruce sails in with his maritime Native Americans
• May be more during the day?

P.S. Temperature is now at 0 degrees, no wind or rain or snow, but the coming night will get as to -12 again. Weather has been a rollercoaster here, everything from -20 to +5, strong winds, snow and rain during the last week...