Making gingerbread cookies is a Swedish Christmas tradition that our son has grown very fond of. This year he started out by using the shapes and making hearts and stars and Santas, but also he took some creative liberties and created a host of figures and animals from his own imagination. Thus we ended up with a gingerbread dinosaur’s foot, a gingerbread crab, a gingerbread gorilla and a few more novel shapes. And they were all very tasty according to my son.
I remember from when I was a child that one of the joys of helping my mom bake, was to be able to taste the batter. Now I have lost my interest in eating batter but my son seems to be as eager to eat as I was at his age. But even more tasty than the batter he told me, is gingerbread cookies with butter smeared on them. From not standing even the sight of butter to craving buttered gingerbread cookies is as big a shift in tastes as we have experienced so far. And it makes me very curious to know if there is anything else he will start to eat that has been off the table so far. I wish it will be potatoes – that would make cooking and serving Swedish food so much easier.
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