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I'm not a great cook myself, and I don't have any fabulous recipes of my own, although I've been working on versions of some Swedish recipes which I've added here. I collect recipes like they were going out of fashion! I'm putting together some recipe & food links here's what I've got so far:-

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Links

A fellow homeschooler e-friend of mine (Mary) has a fantastic recipe page with plenty of links & web-rings to other cooking sites:- http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/3756/recipe.html
Some recipes in Swedish from my friend Kersti:- http://home2.swipnet.se/~w-21785/kegen/index.htm
For cookie lovers, there are hundreds of cookie recipes at: cookierecipe.com!
Also, check out the Once a Month Cooking (batch cooking & freezing) site (if I could crack this, my life would be a whole lot easier!): (aah! I've lost the link temporarily!)

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Here are some easy-peasy Christmas recipes from Sweden, although I confess the first recipe for Chocolate Balls (known as "truffles" where I come from) were on sale in the shops all year round, and they were very popular in this quarter! The recipes are currently in metric - my apologies to the rest of the world! I will work out imperial measurements shortly. (If anyone would care to send me a set of American or Australian measuring cups, I will gladly do the same for those systems!!!)

* Choklad Bollar * Ischoklad *

Choklad bollar

(Chocolate Balls or Truffles)
Makes around 15 balls:

Ingredients:-

100 g margarine
10 ml sugar*
30 ml oats
2 desertspoons cocoa
2 " " vanilla sugar**
2 " " cold espresso coffee
dessicated coconut if required

Method:-

Mix all the ingredients together and form into balls in the required size! Easy! Some variations include rolling the balls in the coconut, or even colouring the coconut with food colouring first!

*n.b. this is a little odd, isn't it? The Swedes seem to measure everything in deciliters - dl - but I would normally expect it to be in grammes?
** Vanilla sugar is a little like icing sugar but with a vanilla flavour to it. It doesn't seem to be available outside Sweden, so you may try & substitute icing sugar & a few drops of vanilla essence?

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Ischoklad

(Ice chocolate)
Makes around 25-30

Ingredients:-

100 g dark, plain, milk or flavoured chocolate*
100 g coconut butter**

Method:-

Break the chocolate into small pieces and cut the coconut butter into slices. Put it all into a bowl or small saucepan. Place the bowl or saucepan into a larger saucepan half-filled with boiling water. Stir together. When it's melted, pour into small aluminium cases*** and leave to cool & set.

* The recipe that I have recommends cooking chocolate, but cooking chocolate in Sweden is probably better than regular "eating" chocolate at home, so I would recommend not to use cooking chocolate! Again, in Sweden, they had flavoured cooking chocolate, such as orange & mint, which turned out really lovely! Look around & experiment!
** I haven't seen coconut butter here, although it may be available in specialist stores.
*** Again, I haven't seen these here, but I'm sure they're available in specialist cooking shops.

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