5 Ways To Celebrate Midsummer Similar A Swede

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Midsummer is arguably the nearly celebrated 24-hour interval inward the Swedish calendar - together with my all fourth dimension favourite! As amongst all Swedish festivities, the Swedes get together the 24-hour interval earlier on Midsommarafton (Midsummer Eve) for a beautifully rustic affair involving wild flowers, in-seasonal goodies together with dancing closed to a maypole - no thing the weather! Even if you're non inward residing inward this Nordic land, why non channel the Swedes - article of apparel flowers inward your hair, eat, gulp together with last merry this weekend?! Here's my direct to 5 Midsummer musts!

1. Create a midsommarkrans - a crown made from wild flowers (or cheat a lilliputian together with selection upwards some beautiful fresh blooms from your local florist!). There's a handy footstep past times footstep direct inward my Anna Kubel



2. Dine alfresco - no thing the conditions (in fact, midsummer conditions inward Sweden is known for beingness rainy together with blowing a gale - but that never stops the revellry!).

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3. Tuck into sill o potatis - pickled herring together with novel potatoes are a midsummer staple - but yous could larn wild together with create an entire Swedish smågårsbord. Extra points if yous downward your fork 1 time inward a patch together with sing a ditty en masse!

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4. Eat the largest, juiciest strawberries yous tin find -  alone, amongst fresh cream,  inward a pie or fifty-fifty dipped inward chocolate. As long equally they're carmine together with dotty, you're totally on point!

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5. Drink something on the potent side - preferably homemade Akvavit (schnapps). My father-in-law makes a hateful Akvavit, but I nonetheless similar mine tempered downward a lilliputian amongst wild elderflower syrup (that'll last the Brit at the tabular array then...!).


An together with therefore the even out is yours to sing, trip the low-cal fantastic toe together with chat nether the midnight sun!

Oh together with I don't suppose yous bring a Maypole handy? If yous do, it's customary to hop circular it similar a frog. Yep. Refer to signal seat out 5.

And finally, Swedish tradition dictates that if a unmarried adult woman gathers 7 unlike types of flowers together with places them nether her pillow on midsummer day, she'll dream of the human being she's going to marry! Well worth a shot, don't yous think? It powerfulness but last that tall, blonde Swede sitting contrary yous at the midsummer table!

Glad Misommar allihoppa! Skål!

Niki

Due to the Swedish vacation I'll last dorsum on Monday, I promise yous bring a corking weekend!

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