The traditional Swedish Christmas buffet, or "julbord," is often enjoyed in seven distinct courses, a custom that allows you to savor the wide array of flavors. Here's a breakdown: Plate 1: Herring and Baltic Herring Start with pickled flavors. Enjoy various types of herring, including soused herring (matjessill), and perhaps some with mustard sauce. Plate 2: Salmon and other fish Continue with fish dishes. Relish gravlax (cured salmon), cold-smoked salmon, poached salmon, eel, and other fish delicacies. Plate 3: Cold Cuts Now it's time for the cold meats. This includes Christmas ham, different kinds of sausages, pâtés, liver pâté, and maybe even headcheese and pigs' feet. Plate 4: Small Hot Dishes Here come the warm dishes. Enjoy Swedish meatballs (köttbullar), small sausages (prinskorv), ribs, Janssons frestelse (potato gratin with anchovies), and other warm classics. Plate 5: Cheese Take a break from the heavier dishes and enjoy a cheese plate with different kinds of cheese, crackers, and marmalade. Plate 6: Dessert Time for sweets! Here you'll find rice porridge (risgrynsgröt), rice pudding (ris à la Malta), fruit salad, and perhaps some kind of cheesecake. Plate 7: Christmas Candy Finish with Christmas sweets. Enjoy toffee (knäck), fudge (kola), chocolate, marzipan, and other treats. Take small portions of each dish so you can try everything. Enjoy the company and the atmosphere! The "julbord" is a social event to be enjoyed in peace and quiet. But usually we mix all 🤣
5:25 That is the fish round. She seem to have mixed the two first rounds, I do nopt like herring so skips the first alltougether Julbord is traditionally eaten in several rounds, there are a few variations here is one: 1: herring 2: salmon and other fish 3: cold cuts 4: hot food 5: cheese 6: dessert 7: christmas candy But it is very much a buffet kind of meal.
Yep, on Christmas Eve it’s the julbord, and then the days between Christmas and New Year’s (actually called “mellandagarna” or “the in between days” in Swedish) are all about the leftovers😅 Heads up if you’re actually planning to go to a julbord like this one: people tend to make reservations really early (sometimes as early as August if they want to go to a specific place on a specific date), so make sure you don’t miss out on that😊
Yepp, julbord on Christmas Eve, but let's not forget about the old tradition occuring on Christmas Day, the 25th... Besides the early christmas service in church, the "julotta", we have one specific fish dish we usually eat on this day. And on this day, alone. At least in my family, since generations back... Lutfisk! Or "lutefisk", actually "lye fish" which is dried whitefish usually cod, ling or burbot that is brined in lye, soaked and then steamed until it flakes. A truly delicious dish together with Béchamel sauce, allspice, green peas and boiled potatoe. 🥳
5:43 Yes it makes sense. We have dishes that are very set like that as well. But the julbord is something of an exception, you could say. Same with the related smörgåsbord (and older brännvinsbord).
The pig was the storage for leftovers in the old days... you gave the leftovers to the pig throughout the year. The pig got big and you ate it in the winter when there was no fresh produce. Hence ham, sausages, ribs and so on.
We traditionally don't mix everything. Traditionally you take 7 turns. 1. Herring of all kinds 2. Salmon of all kinds and other seafood 3. Cold cuts 4. Hot assortment 5. Cheese and crackers. 6. Desserts 7. Christmas candy
'Julbord' (X-mas buffet) is served the whole of December in restaurants, many restaurants have deliciious food, just like this kind, more or less expensive. Almost all companies treaet their employees with this kind of Julbord, as a company-party, before Christmas. Or you can go with family and friends, that you won't meet during X-mas, but still want to celebrate with. But then on Christmas Eva we do almost the same thing at home. We make a lot of dishes, that we can't finish. Because then we can continue to eat this food for days afterwards - without having to do the job again! We are free, celebrating! Lazy Celebrating! Most people have homemade desserts, candy, chocolates etc. The ris-à-la-Malta (ricepudding), are served with wipped cream, and often Cherris, or Orange-pieces or Cloud berries. Which can be served any day, to variate all the chocolates.
Vegetables traditionally served on the julbord; Red cabbage Kale Brusselsprouts Potatoes Some varieties of beetroot sallad Simlsallad, rödbetssallad) Also lots of fruits, apples, oranges etc, dried fruit.
The reason why there isnt a lot of veggies on the christmas table is because the food is rooted in swedish history. People ate a lot of root veggies and bread back in the day, so when there was a special occasion, they brought out the meats and sweets that they could normally not have. We didnt have a lot of other veggies even during summer because of the climate, and they are even harder to store during winter.
12:20 We sure have rice-puddings, in savory and dessert form, but _ris a la malta_ is no pudding really. It's just whipped cream, mixed with soft rice and vanilla. It's eaten with figs and plums boiled in dark sugar and syrup/melass. Or sometimes with red jam, fresh berries, or sugar-dipped oranges.
Blasphemy! Ris à la Malta should be (at least according to my granny and granny is always right) made from the leftover Risgrynsgröt. Re-heat it with extra cream, as you said maybe some vanilla, and then slices of oranges! Your sauce with figs and plusm is what we have with our Risgrynsgröt instead of cinnamon and sugar. So we have the same dishes but just re-arranged in a different way and maybe a different order.
@@Ferdawoon That works, of course. But Ris à la Malta is best without milk and salt in the rice itself. Many people put milk in the risgrynsgröt (and salt, quite naturally). However, the salt, and most of the sugar, should be in the figs and plum /kompott (sauce), not in the rice. For best result :) I agree that slices of oranges is very nice on top though. We often have that as an alternative. Not all people enjoy figs.
@Ferdawoon never eaten risgrynsgröt with plums or figs, always milk, sugar and cinnamon... in Sweden, Italy and in the states. Risgrynsgröt is rice porridge, and risalamanta is made of the leftovers
Hi Dwayne! Most grocery stores in Sweden close earlier on Christmas eve and are closed all day on Christmas day so when we cook our Christmas dinner, we cook for several days. Most people cook more than they need and therefor we have leftovers for days (not that anyone is complaining about it though lol) and we eat Christmas dinner for as long as it lasts. You should definitely go to a julbord if you're ever in Sweden in December. Just make sure to book it in advance because they fill up very fast.
At least in my and my parents home we do exactly as you thought, we eat "Julbord" as early dinner on X-mas eve and then we eat left-overs the rest of the Holiday. Btw we also have Boxing day called "Annandag Jul" wich litterlayy tranlsate to second day X-mas (but also to another day of X-mas 😀).
You can book a julbord at most restaurants in most cities during december and of course most you book online! ❤❤❤🇸🇪 If you want to do it cheaper then you book Eckerölinjen (big ships between Norrtälje (north of Stockholm) to Åland (Finland) . They also have julbord and you travel back and forth during one day. And if you pay a little more you book a 24 hour tour Stockholm- Åland with one of the major cruise ship lines (several to choose from) and they will have a big julbord as well during december (might even start late november)…
My family have a lot of hunters, so we eat a lot of game, like Moose, wild Boar, salmon, birds etc. Juniper is a big part of it, smoking or in sauce. Christmas day we hibernate until 4 in the evening then we eat some more (and drink amazing amount of alcohol) 😉
It's NOT rice pudding that you bake in the oven and it doesn't taste the same!! Our classic is Ris à la Malta, a cold rice porridge that is mixed with icing sugar, vanilla sugar, lightly whipped cream, everything is mixed and decorated with orange wedges or clementine.
yes stodgy and heavy is Stadig and tung in sweden not so far in direct translation. A julbord is a buffe.. Only thing is the order of cold warm and desert.. The rise ala malta is rise like a rise pudding but more like porridge with cinnamon and clementines in it.
We'll book you a traditional Julbord for next christmas, Dwayne! After that you will be so stuffed that we just roll you aboard the ferry to Finland like a football! ;-)
A real julbord is 7 plates1: pickled herring, bread, butter and cheese. Maybe a potatoe. 2: salmon, eel, egg halves with a topping. 3: cold cuts, ham 4: warm food like meatballs, ribs. 5: lutfisk 6: Dessert, coffee. 7: sweets. Just a little bit of each and NOT on the same plate.
Julbord.. (Yule) Not to be conflated with Christmas really.. Its precursor is the Midvinterblot.. (Midwinterfeast). The Swedish one is probably the largest and most varied in the world. Finland.. Again.. Used to be a part of Sweden.. So they have the same traditions and similar foods in fact our foods here can be bought in Finland and theirs here. We have had a shared market since they became independant from Russia.. Albeit they also have some unique foods for their region which is the same all over Sweden. (There are unique dishes in most regions). Having a part Finnish family.. We combine our Yuletables.. I disagree with her about the vegetables.. We have several distinct vegetable dishes.. But they are traditionally usually made with vegetables that last into winter.. Like kale/cabbage/root vegetables.. Brussel sprouts.. Carrots.. Parsnips. Celeriac.. Pickled veg.
One of the more controversial parts of the julbord is missing. The smoked eel. It is a very fatty fish which for a long time was the highlight of the julbord... often together with a snaps or some other hard liquor. But irresponsible fishing has made the eel close to extinct and we do not have it anymore. Sometimes we try with other kinds of fat fish like clarias for example. It is good... but not the same as eel. :)
I always mess up the julbord by eating too much harring with potato and smoked fish so I'm already full when it's time for the main dish. The candy make the full feeling decrese so there is some room for coffee, pudding and berries. I recomend to eat the salmon before the harring since nothing taste salt after the harring.
Yeah, I have to pause here. That starter plate is not mixed - it's cold fish and, ok, warm potatoes. Some will mix that with warm dishes, meatballs, sausages, ham, ribs, everything on one plate, - I dont. I take a plate of, cold, fish. Then cold meat, then I move on to the warm food. Not much room for desert but I don't mind. The venue, gamla riksarkivet, is probably one of the best places to experience a Swedish julbord - if you ever come here and want to try julbord. Just a tips (or is it tip?).
She's wrong, we have plenty of veggies on the traditional Swedish Julbord., red cabbage slaw, red cabbage salads with fruits like apple and nuts, kale salad with oranges and walnuts, brussel sprouts prepared in a plethora of ways, beetroot salad (also more of a slaw), and the most classic dish of them all Brunkål (brown cabbage) which is a way of cooking white cabbage turning it brown, and within the large Finnish population it is very popular with Kålrotslåda (Swedish) / Lanttulaatikko (Finnish) which is a swede (rutabaga) casserole. These are only a few mentions of veggies on the Julbord and the idea that there are very few vegetarian or vegan options on the swedish Julbord is not accurate and won't hold up in food court. Sincerely the Swedish Chef
Depending on time and date price goes from 895 (Swedish kronor) to 1395 sek. Children 4-12 yo 500 sek to 795 sek. Start november 8 end december 25 with two sittings per day, lunch and dinner/evening. Info. for 2024.
Hej, det där var ett extremt exempel på svenskt julbord men dom existerar. Till och med IKEA har en variant på julbord 199 sek för medlemmar tror jag att det kostar.
Well in Sweden our main celebration day is Christmas eve the 24th this is when we exchange gifts and so on. 25th is more of your like boxing day. And generally our leftovers last us to at least new years. (Yes, you're really tired of it by then) Christmas in Sweden is not a very christian affair it's in many ways more related to our pagan days when we celebrated the winter solstice. The main dish is what ever can be made out of a slaughtered (sacrificed to the Nordic God's Oden and so on). So a "Christmas Ham" (Julskinka) is the most prominent thing at home it's usually served warm on Christmas eve.
And usally it's only when company's pay we go to julbord out. It's expencive. At home we do it as well for christmas but, at least we, take it down a bit. Only make dishes we like and not in exess, boxingday we eat pizza (not christmas ingrediants).
What is it like in England? Other countries? Here in Sweden it seems to have become “mandatory” that companies, municipalities, organizations, associations invite their staff, customers and colleagues to a Christmas dinner at a good or better restaurant. Usually, the eating is divided into what could be seen as appetizers - cold dishes where the fish is prioritized - then the hot dishes. (And no, vegan and julbord can hardly be written in the same sentence...)
swedes tend not to mix. first plate is seefod, sill and halved eggs with different delicacies with exception of jansons. second with pork ribs, JULSKINKA, KÖTTBULLAR, saugeses, ...., etc, etc, and then dessrts and candy. Secret to survive is pick very very small pieces and what u enjoy.
Vegan julbord can vary. It can be boring 70’s style vegan/vegetarian stuff, like for example instead of the Christmas ham there a disgusting baked rutabaga covered in mustard and breadcrumbs. I prefer the ones with high quality meat and fish substitutes. But the vegan Janson is better made with capers instead of a fish substitute.
Damn I have to comment again (sorry!). I don't like that we all (almost) in Sweden speak American English. I even had a teacher that taught English with a VERY American dialect. We're so much closer to you and I love the sound of British English. I have tried to speak more like you around people but everyone just think you are joking or something. :(
I don't like the "SMS" culture.. (possibly some people may think of it as "Twitter" culture).. where.. whatever you say HAVE to work within 150:ish characters.. So.. I know I use too many words for people to bother to read (TL;DR: That is your choices, but if you care about a TL;DR: Do NOT read this is NOT anything you care about AT ALL!!. .. There is the Swedish term "Smörgåsbord".. technically the word "bord" means "table".. and technically "Smörgås" is some form of bread with something on it.. so.. turning a piece of bread into something you would eat.. THEN it's a smörgås.. "Smör" literally means "butter".. gås.. is a bit more difficult to explain if exactness matters, but also.. it don't so let's just aknowledge that it literally means "goose".. but.. the POINT is that.. the most atomatic way to eat a slice of bread is a slice.. with some butter on.. hence.. "Smör" (butter).. gås... "The sandwich was invented by the earl of sandwich".. well.. no.. it wasn't invented but it IS the etymology of the WORD "Sandwich".. bread.. with something on it.. existed BEFORE this.. so what the earl of sandwich added to WHAT ALREADY EXISTED in the area was to place YET ANOTHER piece of bread on TOP of the actual fill of the bread.. so.. what we in Sweden calls a "Smörgås" is often called (in English) an "open sandwich or "open face sandwich".. the thing is.. the idea of having ONE slice of bread and putting something on it.. IS the original way to use bread... so.. trying to invent NEW words where you HAVE to use the more LIMITED word of a sandwich.. where there have to be TWO slices of bread where you put something inbetween ; THAT is what is deviant. Either way. "Smörgås".. is about a bread.. on which you want to put things to make it edible.. Starting with butter.. that is pretty much always there.. but you may add.. honey instead?.. either way.. you may want some cheese too.. or some slices of cucumber and/or tomatoes.. either way.. Smörgås.. is a bread with something that does NOT require cooking on it.. and when I say it doesn't require cooking I mean the same as "cold cuts".. as in.. it MAY have been cooked.. or grilled.. or.. smoked..... or cured......... ???.. at SOME point.. but when you make your.. "smörgås".. cooking isn't what you are looking for. and from THAT word.. Smörgåsbord".. (open face sandwich table.. ?????).. comes from. The thing is.. a Smörgås-table MAY have some things that MAY actually be intended to be served hot??????. .so.. that is contrary to the idea of a smörgås.. but.. then again; Common use is how language works.. There is even a Swedish term called a "warm smörgås" which is.. a piece of bread.. that has been heated.. AFTER you put on something you may think REQUIRES heating OR something that you normally WOULD be able to eat as a toping on an open-faced sandwich WITHOUT anything getting heated.. But.. it being a "table".. rather means.. "buffet".. in english.. seriously.. it IS pretty much the same if we discuss the meaning of the words. A smörgåsbord IS any buffet where the food is ALREADY prepared and you can just take a plate and go up to the buffet and take ANYTHING that is there and put it on your plate.. it's a type of "servine" like.. a.. "russian" serving or a "french" serving.. but.. KIND of it should be focused on things that you COULD eat if it was cold.. it may NOT be cold it may be cooked but.. the actual available items SHOULD probably be things that you would reasonable eat if it was.. cold. Which brings us to a.. "Christmas".. table.. "hulbord".. "jul".. "bord".. In this case I'd say that the word "bord" is even MORE related to the word "Buffet".. because.. it is a buffet.. of foods where all items are things that people would identify as food related to things you would/may eat around Christmas time.. Jul means "Christmas".. of course there is a shitload of pun-based humour, skits, old gags, etc based on the mere fact that the Swedish wrod for Chrstnas" ( = Jul ).. is pronounced IDENTICAL to the Swedish word for wheel.. ( = Hjul ).. . F.ex a song that is called "It's on wheels santa comes".. (Det är på Jul tomten kommer" (It's on Chrstnmas Santa comes, but spelled as It's on Wheels santa comes.. Yes.. a "dad joke" if there ever was one ua-cam.com/video/JyuMYThQJCI/v-deo.html).. . . but yeah.. (but no, but yeah, but noo, but)..
Do not believe the lies. I have never ever even heard of a vegan Julbord. I mean almost everything is meat and fish. It's like ham, sausages, meatballs, pickled fish, Eggs, Ribs etc. The only vegan stuff. Is bread, potatoes & maybe a salad. Unless by vegan you mean skip the food and just drink the booze. Big warning if you go out with the company and the bar is free ;)
Good video but in a way a false video, caus this is typical resturant julbord if you look at the home julbord its alot less then all this also a julbord is like 40 pound witch is expensive but you get alot ofc but a true julbord should be show off at home not a resturant
First plate: cold food. Second plate: hot food. Third plate: whatever you want. Then lie down comatosed in the sofa :)
Totally agree 😁
The traditional Swedish Christmas buffet, or "julbord," is often enjoyed in seven distinct courses, a custom that allows you to savor the wide array of flavors. Here's a breakdown:
Plate 1: Herring and Baltic Herring
Start with pickled flavors. Enjoy various types of herring, including soused herring (matjessill), and perhaps some with mustard sauce.
Plate 2: Salmon and other fish
Continue with fish dishes. Relish gravlax (cured salmon), cold-smoked salmon, poached salmon, eel, and other fish delicacies.
Plate 3: Cold Cuts
Now it's time for the cold meats. This includes Christmas ham, different kinds of sausages, pâtés, liver pâté, and maybe even headcheese and pigs' feet.
Plate 4: Small Hot Dishes
Here come the warm dishes. Enjoy Swedish meatballs (köttbullar), small sausages (prinskorv), ribs, Janssons frestelse (potato gratin with anchovies), and other warm classics.
Plate 5: Cheese
Take a break from the heavier dishes and enjoy a cheese plate with different kinds of cheese, crackers, and marmalade.
Plate 6: Dessert
Time for sweets! Here you'll find rice porridge (risgrynsgröt), rice pudding (ris à la Malta), fruit salad, and perhaps some kind of cheesecake.
Plate 7: Christmas Candy
Finish with Christmas sweets. Enjoy toffee (knäck), fudge (kola), chocolate, marzipan, and other treats.
Take small portions of each dish so you can try everything.
Enjoy the company and the atmosphere! The "julbord" is a social event to be enjoyed in peace and quiet.
But usually we mix all 🤣
5:25 That is the fish round. She seem to have mixed the two first rounds, I do nopt like herring so skips the first alltougether
Julbord is traditionally eaten in several rounds, there are a few variations here is one:
1: herring
2: salmon and other fish
3: cold cuts
4: hot food
5: cheese
6: dessert
7: christmas candy
But it is very much a buffet kind of meal.
Yep, on Christmas Eve it’s the julbord, and then the days between Christmas and New Year’s (actually called “mellandagarna” or “the in between days” in Swedish) are all about the leftovers😅
Heads up if you’re actually planning to go to a julbord like this one: people tend to make reservations really early (sometimes as early as August if they want to go to a specific place on a specific date), so make sure you don’t miss out on that😊
Yepp, julbord on Christmas Eve, but let's not forget about the old tradition occuring on Christmas Day, the 25th...
Besides the early christmas service in church, the "julotta", we have one specific fish dish we usually eat on this day. And on this day, alone. At least in my family, since generations back...
Lutfisk! Or "lutefisk", actually "lye fish" which is dried whitefish usually cod, ling or burbot that is brined in lye, soaked and then steamed until it flakes.
A truly delicious dish together with Béchamel sauce, allspice, green peas and boiled potatoe. 🥳
5:43 Yes it makes sense. We have dishes that are very set like that as well.
But the julbord is something of an exception, you could say.
Same with the related smörgåsbord (and older brännvinsbord).
The pig was the storage for leftovers in the old days... you gave the leftovers to the pig throughout the year. The pig got big and you ate it in the winter when there was no fresh produce. Hence ham, sausages, ribs and so on.
And after new years everyone is so sick of the "julbord" you can't stand the sight of it😂
We traditionally don't mix everything. Traditionally you take 7 turns.
1. Herring of all kinds
2. Salmon of all kinds and other seafood
3. Cold cuts
4. Hot assortment
5. Cheese and crackers.
6. Desserts
7. Christmas candy
'Julbord' (X-mas buffet) is served the whole of December in restaurants, many restaurants have deliciious food, just like this kind, more or less expensive. Almost all companies treaet their employees with this kind of Julbord, as a company-party, before Christmas. Or you can go with family and friends, that you won't meet during X-mas, but still want to celebrate with. But then on Christmas Eva we do almost the same thing at home. We make a lot of dishes, that we can't finish. Because then we can continue to eat this food for days afterwards - without having to do the job again! We are free, celebrating! Lazy Celebrating! Most people have homemade desserts, candy, chocolates etc. The ris-à-la-Malta (ricepudding), are served with wipped cream, and often Cherris, or Orange-pieces or Cloud berries. Which can be served any day, to variate all the chocolates.
I grew up with Swedish Christmas food on Christmas Eve, and English Christmas food and Christmas Day (thanks grandma!).
Vegetables traditionally served on the julbord;
Red cabbage
Kale
Brusselsprouts
Potatoes
Some varieties of beetroot sallad Simlsallad, rödbetssallad)
Also lots of fruits, apples, oranges etc, dried fruit.
The reason why there isnt a lot of veggies on the christmas table is because the food is rooted in swedish history. People ate a lot of root veggies and bread back in the day, so when there was a special occasion, they brought out the meats and sweets that they could normally not have. We didnt have a lot of other veggies even during summer because of the climate, and they are even harder to store during winter.
12:20 We sure have rice-puddings, in savory and dessert form, but _ris a la malta_ is no pudding really. It's just whipped cream, mixed with soft rice and vanilla. It's eaten with figs and plums boiled in dark sugar and syrup/melass. Or sometimes with red jam, fresh berries, or sugar-dipped oranges.
Blasphemy!
Ris à la Malta should be (at least according to my granny and granny is always right) made from the leftover Risgrynsgröt. Re-heat it with extra cream, as you said maybe some vanilla, and then slices of oranges!
Your sauce with figs and plusm is what we have with our Risgrynsgröt instead of cinnamon and sugar.
So we have the same dishes but just re-arranged in a different way and maybe a different order.
@@Ferdawoon That works, of course. But Ris à la Malta is best without milk and salt in the rice itself. Many people put milk in the risgrynsgröt (and salt, quite naturally).
However, the salt, and most of the sugar, should be in the figs and plum /kompott (sauce), not in the rice. For best result :)
I agree that slices of oranges is very nice on top though. We often have that as an alternative. Not all people enjoy figs.
@Ferdawoon never eaten risgrynsgröt with plums or figs, always milk, sugar and cinnamon... in Sweden, Italy and in the states. Risgrynsgröt is rice porridge, and risalamanta is made of the leftovers
the christmas table is my favourite table. :D haha
In Finland our Christmas rice porridge(pudding) is served warm, with a single almond.
Hi Dwayne! Most grocery stores in Sweden close earlier on Christmas eve and are closed all day on Christmas day so when we cook our Christmas dinner, we cook for several days. Most people cook more than they need and therefor we have leftovers for days (not that anyone is complaining about it though lol) and we eat Christmas dinner for as long as it lasts.
You should definitely go to a julbord if you're ever in Sweden in December. Just make sure to book it in advance because they fill up very fast.
the christmas table is just yummy!!! eat so u burst and then eat again!! merry christmas
A Julbord is a specific type of smörgåsbord
Looks like they've just started serving Julbord this week, and it seems to end somewhere in the week before Christmas.
Once in a lifetime, everyone should experience a high-class Swedish Christmas dinner. It's fantastic. i hope u get to taste it some day.
At least in my and my parents home we do exactly as you thought, we eat "Julbord" as early dinner on X-mas eve and then we eat left-overs the rest of the Holiday.
Btw we also have Boxing day called "Annandag Jul" wich litterlayy tranlsate to second day X-mas (but also to another day of X-mas 😀).
jul = christmas
bord = table
You can book a julbord at most restaurants in most cities during december and of course most you book online! ❤❤❤🇸🇪 If you want to do it cheaper then you book Eckerölinjen (big ships between Norrtälje (north of Stockholm) to Åland (Finland) . They also have julbord and you travel back and forth during one day. And if you pay a little more you book a 24 hour tour Stockholm- Åland with one of the major cruise ship lines (several to choose from) and they will have a big julbord as well during december (might even start late november)…
My family have a lot of hunters, so we eat a lot of game, like Moose, wild Boar, salmon, birds etc. Juniper is a big part of it, smoking or in sauce. Christmas day we hibernate until 4 in the evening then we eat some more (and drink amazing amount of alcohol) 😉
Skåne style, pickled herring, other cold fish, cold meats, warm cuts, ham, porridge, dessert.
Going for a 24 hr "julbords" cruise where they serve a Christmas buffet this year
As a fellow lover of food, I really really enjoy your reactions to food! Even more so Swedish cuisine!
And she didn´t even mention the kale boiled in cream!
yes usually we just eat leftovers on christmas day, it's also considered pizza day for some. (but maybee more so new years day. )
Same here, julbord first then leftover next couple of days. Love from Sweden
It's NOT rice pudding that you bake in the oven and it doesn't taste the same!!
Our classic is Ris à la Malta, a cold rice porridge that is mixed with icing sugar, vanilla sugar, lightly whipped cream, everything is mixed and decorated with orange wedges or clementine.
yes stodgy and heavy is Stadig and tung in sweden not so far in direct translation. A julbord is a buffe.. Only thing is the order of cold warm and desert.. The rise ala malta is rise like a rise pudding but more like porridge with cinnamon and clementines in it.
Stodgy sounds like the swedish word stadig. We use it the same way. En stadig middag= a stodgy dinner.
Vegan julbord that definitely a new thing😂
Janssons Frestelse is the best!! And the herring of course
We'll book you a traditional Julbord for next christmas, Dwayne! After that you will be so stuffed that we just roll you aboard the ferry to Finland like a football! ;-)
Tradition actually dictates that we have to eat the food in a certain order.. But nowadays younger people just eat what they prefer.
A real julbord is 7 plates1: pickled herring, bread, butter and cheese. Maybe a potatoe.
2: salmon, eel, egg halves with a topping.
3: cold cuts, ham
4: warm food like meatballs, ribs.
5: lutfisk
6: Dessert, coffee.
7: sweets.
Just a little bit of each and NOT on the same plate.
Julbord.. (Yule) Not to be conflated with Christmas really.. Its precursor is the Midvinterblot.. (Midwinterfeast). The Swedish one is probably the largest and most varied in the world. Finland.. Again.. Used to be a part of Sweden.. So they have the same traditions and similar foods in fact our foods here can be bought in Finland and theirs here. We have had a shared market since they became independant from Russia.. Albeit they also have some unique foods for their region which is the same all over Sweden. (There are unique dishes in most regions). Having a part Finnish family.. We combine our Yuletables.. I disagree with her about the vegetables.. We have several distinct vegetable dishes.. But they are traditionally usually made with vegetables that last into winter.. Like kale/cabbage/root vegetables.. Brussel sprouts.. Carrots.. Parsnips. Celeriac.. Pickled veg.
One of the more controversial parts of the julbord is missing. The smoked eel. It is a very fatty fish which for a long time was the highlight of the julbord... often together with a snaps or some other hard liquor. But irresponsible fishing has made the eel close to extinct and we do not have it anymore.
Sometimes we try with other kinds of fat fish like clarias for example. It is good... but not the same as eel. :)
I always mess up the julbord by eating too much harring with potato and smoked fish so I'm already full when it's time for the main dish.
The candy make the full feeling decrese so there is some room for coffee, pudding and berries.
I recomend to eat the salmon before the harring since nothing taste salt after the harring.
Yeah, I have to pause here. That starter plate is not mixed - it's cold fish and, ok, warm potatoes.
Some will mix that with warm dishes, meatballs, sausages, ham, ribs, everything on one plate, - I dont. I take a plate of, cold, fish. Then cold meat, then I move on to the warm food. Not much room for desert but I don't mind.
The venue, gamla riksarkivet, is probably one of the best places to experience a Swedish julbord - if you ever come here and want to try julbord. Just a tips (or is it tip?).
the swedish julbord is a big m,ix of everything u pick what u want and just stuff ureself!!
ure welcome to join me and my son and mum for christmas..just eat enjoy watching tv eat cookies drink and just enjoy christmas:)
Christmas buffe is served from 1 off December to 24 in resturant a cross Sweden 🇸🇪
Svensk särskrivning på engelska. Nice. 😊
The goal is to eat so much, that you explode.
Ikea have a cheaper julbord with some of the food in there restaurant. At least they do in Sweden
The price seems to differ between 995 kr - 1395 kr depending on when you wanna go. (71,78-100,64 british pounds)
She's wrong, we have plenty of veggies on the traditional Swedish Julbord., red cabbage slaw, red cabbage salads with fruits like apple and nuts, kale salad with oranges and walnuts, brussel sprouts prepared in a plethora of ways, beetroot salad (also more of a slaw), and the most classic dish of them all Brunkål (brown cabbage) which is a way of cooking white cabbage turning it brown, and within the large Finnish population it is very popular with Kålrotslåda (Swedish) / Lanttulaatikko (Finnish) which is a swede (rutabaga) casserole. These are only a few mentions of veggies on the Julbord and the idea that there are very few vegetarian or vegan options on the swedish Julbord is not accurate and won't hold up in food court. Sincerely the Swedish Chef
My wife quickly decided there needed to be Thai dishes too on our julbord... Not very traditional...
In my family it's tradition to eat turkey on the 25:t
The african mind cannot comprehend this.
Depending on time and date price goes from 895 (Swedish kronor) to 1395 sek. Children 4-12 yo 500 sek to 795 sek. Start november 8 end december 25 with two sittings per day, lunch and dinner/evening. Info. for 2024.
Christmas day ie Pizza
Hej, det där var ett extremt exempel på svenskt julbord men dom existerar.
Till och med IKEA har en variant på julbord
199 sek för medlemmar tror jag att det kostar.
we eat at christmas day and leftovers during the next 3 days:)
Well in Sweden our main celebration day is Christmas eve the 24th this is when we exchange gifts and so on. 25th is more of your like boxing day. And generally our leftovers last us to at least new years. (Yes, you're really tired of it by then) Christmas in Sweden is not a very christian affair it's in many ways more related to our pagan days when we celebrated the winter solstice. The main dish is what ever can be made out of a slaughtered (sacrificed to the Nordic God's Oden and so on). So a "Christmas Ham" (Julskinka) is the most prominent thing at home it's usually served warm on Christmas eve.
And usally it's only when company's pay we go to julbord out. It's expencive.
At home we do it as well for christmas but, at least we, take it down a bit. Only make dishes we like and not in exess, boxingday we eat pizza (not christmas ingrediants).
What is it like in England? Other countries?
Here in Sweden it seems to have become “mandatory” that companies, municipalities, organizations, associations invite their staff, customers and colleagues to a Christmas dinner at a good or better restaurant.
Usually, the eating is divided into what could be seen as appetizers - cold dishes where the fish is prioritized - then the hot dishes.
(And no, vegan and julbord can hardly be written in the same sentence...)
They usually have a Christmas party instead
swedes tend not to mix. first plate is seefod, sill and halved eggs with different delicacies with exception of jansons. second with pork ribs, JULSKINKA, KÖTTBULLAR, saugeses, ...., etc, etc, and then dessrts and candy. Secret to survive is pick very very small pieces and what u enjoy.
Vegan julbord can vary. It can be boring 70’s style vegan/vegetarian stuff, like for example instead of the Christmas ham there a disgusting baked rutabaga covered in mustard and breadcrumbs. I prefer the ones with high quality meat and fish substitutes. But the vegan Janson is better made with capers instead of a fish substitute.
Just curious.. do you have a connection to Sweden or is it just that you like us (I hope so)? /Swede :)
Damn I have to comment again (sorry!). I don't like that we all (almost) in Sweden speak American English. I even had a teacher that taught English with a VERY American dialect. We're so much closer to you and I love the sound of British English. I have tried to speak more like you around people but everyone just think you are joking or something. :(
You guys even use the swedish word Smörgåsbord... (Sandwich table) It's the same.. but the christmas version. ;)
Leftovers for weeks after...
I don't like the "SMS" culture.. (possibly some people may think of it as "Twitter" culture).. where.. whatever you say HAVE to work within 150:ish characters..
So.. I know I use too many words for people to bother to read (TL;DR: That is your choices, but if you care about a TL;DR: Do NOT read this is NOT anything you care about AT ALL!!.
.. There is the Swedish term "Smörgåsbord".. technically the word "bord" means "table".. and technically "Smörgås" is some form of bread with something on it.. so.. turning a piece of bread into something you would eat.. THEN it's a smörgås.. "Smör" literally means "butter".. gås.. is a bit more difficult to explain if exactness matters, but also.. it don't so let's just aknowledge that it literally means "goose".. but.. the POINT is that.. the most atomatic way to eat a slice of bread is a slice.. with some butter on.. hence.. "Smör" (butter).. gås... "The sandwich was invented by the earl of sandwich".. well.. no.. it wasn't invented but it IS the etymology of the WORD "Sandwich".. bread.. with something on it.. existed BEFORE this.. so what the earl of sandwich added to WHAT ALREADY EXISTED in the area was to place YET ANOTHER piece of bread on TOP of the actual fill of the bread.. so.. what we in Sweden calls a "Smörgås" is often called (in English) an "open sandwich or "open face sandwich".. the thing is.. the idea of having ONE slice of bread and putting something on it.. IS the original way to use bread... so.. trying to invent NEW words where you HAVE to use the more LIMITED word of a sandwich.. where there have to be TWO slices of bread where you put something inbetween ; THAT is what is deviant.
Either way. "Smörgås".. is about a bread.. on which you want to put things to make it edible.. Starting with butter.. that is pretty much always there.. but you may add.. honey instead?.. either way.. you may want some cheese too.. or some slices of cucumber and/or tomatoes.. either way.. Smörgås.. is a bread with something that does NOT require cooking on it.. and when I say it doesn't require cooking I mean the same as "cold cuts".. as in.. it MAY have been cooked.. or grilled.. or.. smoked..... or cured......... ???.. at SOME point.. but when you make your.. "smörgås".. cooking isn't what you are looking for.
and from THAT word.. Smörgåsbord".. (open face sandwich table.. ?????).. comes from.
The thing is.. a Smörgås-table MAY have some things that MAY actually be intended to be served hot??????. .so.. that is contrary to the idea of a smörgås.. but.. then again; Common use is how language works.. There is even a Swedish term called a "warm smörgås" which is.. a piece of bread.. that has been heated.. AFTER you put on something you may think REQUIRES heating OR something that you normally WOULD be able to eat as a toping on an open-faced sandwich WITHOUT anything getting heated..
But.. it being a "table".. rather means.. "buffet".. in english.. seriously.. it IS pretty much the same if we discuss the meaning of the words. A smörgåsbord IS any buffet where the food is ALREADY prepared and you can just take a plate and go up to the buffet and take ANYTHING that is there and put it on your plate.. it's a type of "servine" like.. a.. "russian" serving or a "french" serving.. but.. KIND of it should be focused on things that you COULD eat if it was cold.. it may NOT be cold it may be cooked but.. the actual available items SHOULD probably be things that you would reasonable eat if it was.. cold.
Which brings us to a.. "Christmas".. table.. "hulbord".. "jul".. "bord".. In this case I'd say that the word "bord" is even MORE related to the word "Buffet".. because.. it is a buffet.. of foods where all items are things that people would identify as food related to things you would/may eat around Christmas time.. Jul means "Christmas".. of course there is a shitload of pun-based humour, skits, old gags, etc based on the mere fact that the Swedish wrod for Chrstnas" ( = Jul ).. is pronounced IDENTICAL to the Swedish word for wheel.. ( = Hjul ).. .
F.ex a song that is called "It's on wheels santa comes".. (Det är på Jul tomten kommer" (It's on Chrstnmas Santa comes, but spelled as It's on Wheels santa comes.. Yes.. a "dad joke" if there ever was one ua-cam.com/video/JyuMYThQJCI/v-deo.html)..
. . but yeah.. (but no, but yeah, but noo, but)..
Do not believe the lies. I have never ever even heard of a vegan Julbord. I mean almost everything is meat and fish. It's like ham, sausages, meatballs, pickled fish, Eggs, Ribs etc. The only vegan stuff. Is bread, potatoes & maybe a salad. Unless by vegan you mean skip the food and just drink the booze. Big warning if you go out with the company and the bar is free ;)
Good video but in a way a false video, caus this is typical resturant julbord if you look at the home julbord its alot less then all this also a julbord is like 40 pound witch is expensive but you get alot ofc but a true julbord should be show off at home not a resturant