Rice puurolle there are also domestic options: cook a christmas pudding this year, barley. Oven stewed barley porridge tastes like christmas morning. Hanna Leppänen

the christmas porridge and the hidden almond are an essential part of the Finnish christmas tradition. Usually porridge is cooked from rice, but indigenous coal option it is there.

Southern ostrobothnia in the Country – and household the woman winked in to boil the porridge of this year, domestic barley.

Barley is Finland’s most cultivated cereal species, but it seems to be for the average consumer borrowing, said agriculture and household women’s Center chairman of the board Mervi Hill-Liquid .

the Domestic grain farmer of the Hill-Liquid christmas traditions has been for years in the oven stewed barley porridge.

in Finland, barley was the main food cereal until the 1800s, when rye took first place. Rice replaced barley in cooking in Finland in the 1950s. Almost the entire ohrasato used for animal feed and the rest of the mallasohraksi, agriculture and household women recalls in a statement.

barley porridge

2 dl pearl barley

2 cups water

pinch of salt

1 l of whole milk (if the cooking pan is level, add fluid more abundant)

1. Rinse barley semolina. Add the water and let the semolina to swell for a few hours or overnight.

2. On the stove: Boil soak the pearl barley in a saucepan or in a water bath of milk gradually, adding on low heat for about an hour, so large a becomes porridge mature, large and chubby. Add the remaining milk and season with salt.

3. In the oven: Pour the barley porridge ingredients in a greased casserole dish and hid the porridge peeled almond. Cook on 150 degrees for about 3 hours or until the porridge is cooked and a beautiful golden brown surface.

Recipe: agriculture and household women