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{SPEAKER name="Karen H. Kiviluoma"} [[Speaking in Finnish]]
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{SPEAKER name="Geraldine Kangas"} I'll explain this a little in English. For those that don't-- [[laughter]] we-- the Fins like to make egg coffee. It [[clears?]] the coffee.
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{SPEAKER name="Geraldine Kangas"} She's thr-- when you drink coffee, you put it in a [[sauce?]]. You put a piece of lump sugar in your mouth [[background speaker - yeah]] and then you put the hot coffee on there and you blow on it and you suck the coffee through the lump sugar.
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{SPEAKER name="Geraldine Kangas"} That's the typical Fin-- I don't know if some of you have been-- have ever drank it that way. We don't do that when we are usually, I don't think, in company.
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{SPEAKER name="Geraldine Kangas"} We use different manners. But that's the way we've all grown up.
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{SPEAKER name="Geraldine Kangas"} And we also dunk a lot of-- we like to dunk things and sometimes we fill our cup up with crackers or Pulla and drink-- eat it with a spoon.
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{SPEAKER name="Geraldine Kangas"} It's a little bit different than what everybody else drinks. [[unintelligible background response]]
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{SPEAKER name="Geraldine Kangas"} Yeah and then the-- what she was saying is that we do [[clear?]] the coffee with the eggs a lot of times, or egg shells. They're very particular as to the amount of coffee.
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{SPEAKER name="Geraldine Kangas"} They don't drink a very strong coffee, but it's--ah-- they usually bring it up to a boil and let it sit. Then bring it up to a boil again and let it sit one more time.
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{SPEAKER name="Geraldine Kangas"} I think we do that about three times. And then it should be just perfect. Some people are really particular about their coffee, but we drink a lot of coffee.
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{SPEAKER name="Geraldine Kangas"} I know one evening my-- we were visiting and we counted, we drank 60 cups in one evening. Which is a lot of coffee. [[laughs]]
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{SPEAKER name="Geraldine Kangas"} We have though, with our coffee, we like a lot of goodies. And I think, Joanne, you tell us about [[Finnish tradition word spoken in Finnish]]
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{SPEAKER NAME="Joanne"} Okay, it's a Finish tradition to put out your finest linens and your finest dishes when you get company.
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{SPEAKER NAME="Joanne"} You put the coffee pot on right away, you set the table, you put all your goodies out and ah-
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{SPEAKER NAME="Joanne"} Finnish women do a lot of baking, and one thing we make is a sweet bread, and it's called Pulla.
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{SPEAKER NAME="Joanne"} It's a soft dough, and you shape it into a braid. You make three long ropes, and you shape it into a braid.
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{SPEAKER NAME="Joanne"} Let it rise, and bake it. And then when you take it out, you can put a syrup made out of coffee and sugar over it. That gives a little more sweetness to it.
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{SPEAKER NAME="Joanne"} And also we use cardamom seeds. We take the seeds out of the pods.
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{SPEAKER NAME="Joanne"} In the olden days, when we all had wood stoves, we used to take the thing that you open the lid off the stove with, and pound the seeds real fine, and crush them fine, and put that into our dough.
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{SPEAKER NAME="Joanne"} It's called cardamom. That gives a nice special flavor to the breads.
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{SPEAKER NAME="Joanne"} At Christmastime we often put a powdered sugar frosting over this Pulla and we add nuts and sometimes a little bit of cherry on top for color.
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{SPEAKER NAME="Joanne"} I especially remember the Finnish people, when you go there for-- to visit, they always treat you like you're a queen or a king and they put out their best dishes and their best foods out for you to eat.
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{SPEAKER name="Geraldine Kangas"} Okay I might say something to that, maybe [[Limey?]] can help us out.
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{SPEAKER name="Geraldine Kangas"} When you've been visiting for a while and it seems like no one seems to be putting the coffee pot on-- [[unintelligible Finnish, background talking]]
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{SPEAKER name="Geraldine Kangas"} You twiddle your thumbs! You twiddle your thumbs. And then you're supposed to catch that and put the pot on.
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{SPEAKER NAME="Joanne"} Right. That's the signal for you'd better-- [[laughter]]
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{SPEAKER name="Geraldine Kangas"} That's the signal for the pot. Okay, how about the signal if there's nothing to go with? Because they don't like just black coffee.
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{SPEAKER name="Geraldine Kangas"} That means we need something to go along with. [[laughter]]
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{SPEAKER name="Geraldine Kangas"} We have all kinds of little habits. [[laughter]] We sort of forget them ourselves.
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{SPEAKER name="Geraldine Kangas"} Now we don't waste anything either. The Finnish people are-- they try not to waste any products and ah.
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{SPEAKER name="Geraldine Kangas"} I guess our generation has gotten a little careless on that, but like the Pulla, there's many things you can do with Pulla. Did you ever make toast out of your Pulla?
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{SPEAKER NAME="Joanne"} Right, that makes delicious toast. Just slice it, put it in your toaster, and put butter on it. And it's just delicious.
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{SPEAKER name="Geraldine Kangas"} Uh huh, or else a French toast too. You can make a French toast out of-- probably add a little flour, and you make a French toast out of that.
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{SPEAKER name="Geraldine Kangas"} Or another thing that you could do is make a bread pudding. By the foll-- We usually make Pulla on Saturday and by the time the following Saturday comes along, you want fresh Pulla.
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{SPEAKER name="Geraldine Kangas"} So, what you do with the old Pulla is, you make a bread pudding out of it. You add a little eggs and a little milk.
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{SPEAKER name="Geraldine Kangas"} If you had any leftover porridge, maybe you had rice last week, you add the rice. Throw in a few raisins.
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{SPEAKER name="Geraldine Kangas"} That's what you did with the leftover-- to make your-- to get rid of your Pulla, and some of your other cereals. Finnish people like a lot of milk foods.
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{SPEAKER name="Geraldine Kangas"} We have for dessert for instance, we use a lot of rice puddings. How about [[Limey]], what do you use?
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{SPEAKER name="Karen H. Kiviluoma"} Yeah. [[Speaking in Finnish]]
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Transcription Notes:
1) 4/9/2020 - I will continue formatting this and tidying it up tomorrow. Thanks! -Russ 2) 4/10/2020 - This is as complete as I could manage - obviously the Finnish sections still need translation if someone capable of doing so. There were a few words I was unsure of and initial Google searches didn't pull up anything. Here are the words and timestamps: 21:04 and 21:48 - Here I am hearing "clears" in the first instance and "clear" in the second, but I hesitate to keep that word because it doesn't make a lot of sense in context. Whatever they say in the first instance, it is the same word in the second. 21:09 - Here I am hearing "sauce," another word that doesn't make sense in context, it might just need another set of ears on it to hear the correct word? 24:14 and 26:17 - Here I believe speaker Geraldine Kangas is addressing speaker Karen Kiviluoma, by what sounds to be the nickname "Limey." I wasn't too sure of the spelling, so I'm including it in these notes. -- I just emailed the SI to add "Joanne" as a speaker, as she was not listed among the speakers. Her introduction didn't include a last name, but I tagged her by just her first name thus far. Other than this, I think this section is ready for review. I will submit it once I get Joanne's speaker tag updated. Thanks! -Russ