Cardamom bread

The wonderful aroma of this Cardamom Bread as it bakes immediately transports me to a cozy Scandinavian kitchen. Add some brewing coffee to the mix and your house will smell unbelievable. I really wish I could bottle it up. Cardamom is not a commonly used spice here in the United States but it is prevalent in Indian cooking and Scandinavian baking. This Cardamom Bread is made with a lightly sweetened dough containing eggs, milk and butter and I find the texture of it reminiscent of Challah…

In the recipe for this sweet coffee-time snack, the yeasty cardamom-spiced dough is cut into a decorative pattern before baking.

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This recipe is from one of my mother's sisters, my Aunt Linda, who had married into a Finnish family. The word pulla technically just means "buns" but often refers to this somewhat sweet, rich bread, also known as Kahvileipä (coffee bread), or even just nisu (wheat). I've been making it since I was quite young, and no longer have any sense of how close my recipe, with my penchant for adjusting things, has remained. It scores big points with every Scandinavian I've fed it to, though…

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Our best cardamom bread recipe is authentically Swedish, and it's perfect for your next tea or coffee break.

In Scandinavia, there is a tradition of baking a cardamom-filled bread called pulla. Find out how to make this comforting Finnish cardamom bread at home!