5 Ways To Celebrate Midsummer Similar A Swede

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Midsummer is arguably the close celebrated twenty-four hr menstruum inward the Swedish calendar - together with my all fourth dimension favourite! As alongside all Swedish festivities, the Swedes get together the twenty-four hr menstruum earlier on Midsommarafton (Midsummer Eve) for a beautifully rustic affair involving wild flowers, in-seasonal goodies together with dancing some a maypole - no affair the weather! Even if you're non inward residing inward this Nordic land, why non channel the Swedes - vesture flowers inward your hair, eat, drinkable together with hold upwards merry this weekend?! Here's my conduct to 5 Midsummer musts!

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



2. Dine alfresco - no affair the atmospheric condition (in fact, midsummer atmospheric condition inward Sweden is known for existence 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 you lot could become wild together with create an entire Swedish smågårsbord. Extra points if you lot 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 you lot tin dismiss find -  alone, alongside fresh cream,  inward a pie or fifty-fifty dipped inward chocolate. As long every mo they're cherry together with dotty, you're totally on point!

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


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

Oh together with I don't suppose you lot convey a Maypole handy? If you lot do, it's customary to hop circular it similar a frog. Yep. Refer to quest let on 5.

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

Glad Misommar allihoppa! Skål!

Niki

Due to the Swedish vacation I'll hold upwards dorsum on Monday, I promise you lot convey a swell weekend!