This document contains greetings for Christmas and the New Year in Finnish. It also provides a recipe for traditional Finnish ginger cookies called Granny's gingercookies. The recipe calls for syrup, milk, sugar, butter, flour, baking soda and various spices. Instructions are given to make the dough, roll it out, cut into shapes, and bake the cookies. Brief facts are also mentioned about Santa Claus living in Lapland, Finland and visiting Finnish homes on Christmas Eve.
6. Granny’s gingercookies
1½ dl syrup
1½ dl milk
200 g sugar
1 tsp ground clove
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp ground ginger
½ tsp ground cardamon
100 g butter (with salt)
1 tbsp bakingsoda
500 g wheat flour
• Put a small saucepan on a low heat, add the syrup, sugar, milk and spices.
• Combine with a spoon. Keep stirring until the mixture boils.
• Take the pan off the heat and add the butter, let it melt in.
• Stir in the flour and baking powder.
• Let it cool down in refrigerator.
7. • Preheat your oven to 200 C.
• Dust work surface and rolling pin with flour
and roll the dough out to about 4 mm thick, use moulds.
• Bake in the oven until cookies are golden brown.
• Decorate: 1 egg white mixed with 250 g icing sugar .
8. Santa lives in Lapland, Finland!
He visits Finnis homes on Christmas Eve.
