Don't worry if you did not bake hveder on the 8th of May, you have the whole year ahead of you to do it. It is easy to prepare, so don't buy them. It is much more fun to bake your own breads and pastries, don't miss this! If you are a beginner in baking, this is a perfect choice for the first time.

Don't buy them because if you do, you miss the experience. If you bake your own, suddenly you become the part of the history, let's see how!  If you bake hveder, whenever you do it, you keep the traditions. Traditions keep us together as families, as identity, as a society. Recipes are part of traditions, therefore our culture.

When we forget about old recipes, we lose part of our past. We forget who we were. Without keeping parts of the past, we cannot build a future. I am always happy to bake from old recipe books, experiment and change them a little bit.

Baking hveder is easy, but it takes time of course. But it's worth all the efforts.

I know whenever you bake, you always do your best. Do your best already when you are shopping and getting the ingredients!

On this way, we work together and take care of our environment, farmers and also the animals. Buy as local and seasonal as possible. On this way there is less transportation. Support small-scale farmers in your area, instead of buying cheap, mass-produced ingredients. Choose biodynamic and organic over conventional. When you go shopping, spend more time on checking the labels, the list of ingredients and the origin of a product.

I know you care about all of these things, and this is how you can actually do it! You have the opportunity to make a difference every single day with careful shopping, baking and keeping the traditions.

Ingredients

You can replace the cardamom with other spices or leave it out, if you are not a fan. But give it a try first! Success is guaranteed. I bake these a lot, sometimes also selling them.

350 g stoneground, biodynamic flour

7 g yeast

5 g salt

25 g local or fairtrade sugar

30 g biodynamic butter

90 ml biodynamic milk

90 ml water

1 free-range egg

5 g fairtrade cardamom

Mix the yeast with a little warm milk, let it sit. Mix flour with sugar, salt, cardamom. Pour in the cold(!) milk, water. Add the egg and the yeast, and finally the melted butter. Knead the dough for 10 minutes with a food processor, cover it and let it sit for a half an hour. Shape 8-10 buns, depending on what size you want. Place them on a baking sheet lined with baking paper, cover and let them raise for 2,5 hours. They will grow a lot, so let them keep the social distance! 🙂 Bake them on 180 degrees for 15-17 minutes. You can double the amount of the ingredients, make more buns and freeze the rest.