These are family recipes, not collected ones. Most came out of two kitchens in Worcester, Massachusetts — my grandmother’s, and the one across the street at our church — and the rest arrived with people who married in or brought something from Sweden and Norway. Where there are arguments about a recipe, we have kept both sides.
Almond cakes
Four versions of the same cake, and none of the bakers would concede an inch. The whole story is here, or go straight to one:
Christmas baking
The syv slag, the seven sorts baked for a Scandinavian Christmas. These four are the ones we make.
Everyday
