We head to Sweden, the home of cinnamon buns, or ‘kanelbullar’, to meet award winning home-cook Lina Walstrom. Monocle’s Tamara Thiessen heads to meet her in Vaxholm to learn how to make this staple Swedish treat. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hello and welcome to Food Neighbourhoods on Monocle Radio, where once again we visit the places locals love for their food and drink.
This week we're heading to Sweden, to the home of cinnamon buns to meet award winning home cook Lina Wallstrom.
Monica's Tamara Thiessen heads to her kitchen in Vaxholm to learn how to make this staple Swedish treat.
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The biggest cinnamon bun I have ever had in my Life was in St.
Paul, Minnesota, and it was addiction at first bite.
I went on to taste, or rather hog down cinnamon buns and their closely related forms, sticky buns and cinnamon rolls and scrolls across the country.
America is the land of super sized cinnamon buns.
But visiting Sweden, I soon realized this was the true home of the cinnamon bun, or as they call them here, canel bull.
Following my nose to the cafes Conditori and Baggierie, I became seriously unst.
Both cinnamon buns and the cardamom equivalent, Cardamom, both doughy concoctions with lashings of spice and other things.
Very, very nice.
On my latest trip, I hear about Stockholm's super cinnamon bun cook and ferry off to the island of Vaxholm to meet her and get a lesson in the Swedish art of cinnamon balm making.
You should just have the room temperature ingredients.
Of course, you will need more flour and then melted butter than in the other one to get a proper dough.
And you don't want, you want as little flour as necessary to keep the dough, otherwise it will be too heavy.
And then when you want your tunnel bouleur, you just take them out of the freezer, you put them on your tray.
Linda Wahlstrom greets me into the kitchen of her Vaxon Bed and Breakfast where she runs a cinnamon bun baking workshop.
So it's actually a B and B and B, a bed, breakfast and bun.
The buttery, yeasty cinnamon scrolls have been entrenched in Swedish culture for a century.