Lingonberry jam

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Lingonberry jam

Lingonberry jam (sv: lingonsylt, no:tyttebærsyltetøy) is a staple food in Scandinavian

Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a historical and geographical subregion in northern Europe that includes the Scandinavian Peninsula. It consists of the kingdoms of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark; some authorities also include Finland and some might even include Iceland....
cuisine

Cuisine

Cuisine is a specific set of cooking traditions and practices, often associated with a specific culture. A cuisine is primarily influenced by the ingredients that are available locally or through trade....
. Because lingonberries are plentiful in the forested areas of the inland, the jam is easy to prepare, has good keeping qualities and lots of vitamin C, it has always been very popular with traditional dishes such as kroppkakor

Kroppkakor

Kroppkaka is a traditional Sweden dish, namely potato-dumplings with a filling of onions and pork or bacon. Potatoes, wheat flour, onion, salt and minced meat/pork are common ingredients in kroppkakor....
, pitepalt

Pitepalt

Pitepalt is a palt, a dish related to kroppkakor, and the specialty of the city of Pite?, though it is not eaten only in Pite?. This Swedish dish has almost as many variants as households in Pite?....
, potato cake, kåldolmar and blood sausage

Blood sausage

Black pudding or blood pudding is an English term for sausage made by blood as food with a filler until it is thick enough to congeal when cooled....
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Lingonberry jam (sv: lingonsylt, no:tyttebærsyltetøy) is a staple food in Scandinavian

Scandinavia

Cuisine

Kroppkakor

Pitepalt

Blood sausage

Black pudding or blood pudding is an English term for sausage made by blood as food with a filler until it is thick enough to congeal when cooled....
. Today, it is served as jam, for instance with oven-made thick pancake

Pancake

A pancake is a thin, flat cake prepared from a batter and cooked on a hot griddle or frying pan. Pancakes exist in several variations in many different local cuisines....
s, as well as a relish with meat courses such as meatball

Meatball

A meatball is a ball of ground beef meat and other ingredients, such as bread or breadcrumbs, minced onion, various spices, and possibly egg , rolled together by hand, and cooked by frying, baking, steaming, or braising in sauce....
s, beef stew

Stew

A stew is a combination of solid food ingredients that have been cooked in liquid and served in the resultant gravy.Ingredients in a stew can include any combination of vegetables , meat, poultry, sausages and seafood....
or liver

Offal

Offal is the entrails and internal organs of a butchered animal. The word does not refer to a particular list of organs, but includes most internal organs other than muscles or bones....
dishes; regionally even with fried herring

Herring

Herring are small, oily fish of the genus Clupea found in the shallow, temperate waters of the North Pacific Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, including the Baltic Sea....
. It is also often used on the traditional oatmeal porridge, sometimes together with cinamon, and, perhaps, a little sugar or syrup

Syrup

In cooking, a syrup is a thick, viscous liquid, containing a large amount of dissolved sugars, but showing little tendency to deposit crystals....
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Fine lingonberry jam is prepared only with berries, sugar

Sugar

Sugar is a class of edible crystalline substances, mainly sucrose, lactose, and fructose. Human taste buds interpret its flavor as sweet. Sugar as a basic food carbohydrate primarily comes from sugar cane and from sugar beet, but also appears in fruit, honey, sorghum, sugar maple , and in many other sources....
and, optionally, a small amount of water. Cheaper varieties are diluted with apple

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s and/or pectin

Pectin

Pectin is a structural heteropolysaccharide contained in the primary cell walls of terrestrial plants. It was first isolated and described in 1825 by Henri Braconnot....
. The natural benzoic acid

Benzoic acid

Benzoic acid, C7H6O2 , is a colorless crystalline solid and the simplest aromatic carboxylic acid. The name derived from gum benzoin, which was for a long time the only source for benzoic acid....
of the berries makes artificial preservative

Preservative

A preservative is a natural or synthetic chemical compound that is added to products such as foods, pharmaceuticals, paints, biological samples, wood, etc....
s unnecessary. Very fine "jam" is prepared fresh by just mixing berries and sugar, without cooking; this is called rårörda lingon (raw-stirred lingonberries).

Lingonberry jam has been popularized in America by the well-known IKEA

IKEA

IKEA is a privately-held, international home products retailer that sells ready-to-assemble furniture furniture, accessories, and bathroom and kitchen items in their retail stores around the world....
superstores where it is sold in large quantities, including buckets.

Lingonberries

Vaccinium vitis-idaea

The Vaccinium vitis-idaea – often called lingonberry and also called cowberry, foxberry, mountain cranberry, csejka berry, red whortleberry, lowbush cranberry, mountain bilberry, partridgeberry , and redberry – is a small evergreen shrub in the flowering plant family...
are known as 'lowbush' cranberries or partridge berries in North America from Alaska to Labrador and have the botanical name of 'Vaccinium vitis-idaea'.

Lingonberry jam

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