The Taste of Nature - Blueberry Pie

Here is one of the recipes from my beloved Westfjords cookbook "West Fjords - A Culinary Journey." by Guðlaug Jónsdóttir and Karl Kristján Ásgeirsson - thank you again, Guðlaug, for allowing me to present this recipe from your book here!!!
 

Velkomin á Bláberjadaga í Súðavík!

Welcome to International Blueberry Festival in Súðavík!

The small fishing town of Sú ðavik (around 200 inhabitants) is located one fjord further around 20 km from Ísa fjörður and is in the middle of an absolute berry region. At the end of August, the "Bláberjadaga", the "International Blueberry Festival", takes place in this place. The festival features competitions in berry picking, blueberry pie eating and blueberry runs over various distances, as well as music events - always a big event for young and old!

Sú ðavik gained notoriety through an avalanche accident in the snowy winter of 1994/1995. Snow avalanches occur frequently in the area. A large avalanche on January 16, 1995 destroyed around 1/3 of the town and 14 residents were killed in the accident. The old location has been in an official danger zone ever since. The residents have built new houses towards the fjord and have essentially “moved” their location a little bit. The old houses, which can only be used in summer, now serve as summer houses.

polar fox

Deep sea fishing is mainly offered in Sú ðavik and the Melrakkasetur Íslands , the Icelandic Arctic Fox Center, is also located in Sú ðavik.

Recipe: Dagbjört's Blueberry Pie

At the Blueberry Days 2011, Dagbjört Hjaltadóttir won the competition for the tastiest blueberry dish, the recipe was published in the Westfjords cookbook with the consent of the winner and the organizers.


Ingredients

350 g wholemeal spelled flour
300 g brown sugar
50 g agave syrup
350 g coarse oat flakes
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
200 g soft butter

400 g fresh blueberries
2 Tbsp cane sugar


Preparation

In a large bowl, mix the flour with the sugar, syrup, oats, salt and cinnamon.

Mix the soft butter with the remaining ingredients and knead into coarse crumbles.

Put about half of the dough into a greased or baking pan lined with baking paper (diameter approx. 24 cm)...

...and press it loosely into the bottom of the mold.

Wash the blueberries, drain them and spread them on the base, then sprinkle with the cane sugar.

Pour the remaining streusel over the blueberries.

...and bake in a preheated oven at 350 °F (180 °C) upper and lower heat for about 40 minutes.

Serve the blueberry pie with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream as dessert.

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Hnetusmjörskökur - vegan

Peanut butter cookies - the vegan version

Ingredients

240g peanut butter
240 g maple syrup
80 ml peanut oil
2 tsp vanilla
480 g wholemeal flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt


Preparation
 
Preheat the oven to 350 °F (180 °C) upper/lower heat.
   
To make the dough, mix the peanut butter, maple syrup and peanut oil with the vanilla.

Add the wholemeal flour, baking powder and salt and knead carefully...

...and then let the dough stand for about 10 minutes.

Then form small balls out of the dough, place them on a baking tray lined with baking paper, leaving plenty of space between them, gently flatten them with a fork and bake them at 350 °F (180 °C) for about 10 minutes, until the cookies are lightly golden brown.

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Blaðlaukur salat

Leek salad

Ingredients for 4 persons

1.2 kg leek
4 Tbsp walnut oil
2 Tbsp vinegar
1 Tbsp dried thyme
1 Tbsp chopped onion
2 hard-boiled eggs


Preparation

Wash and clean the leek and cut it into thin slices.

Then cook the cut vegetables in salted water for a good 20 minutes. Then pour off the water.

To make the sauce, mix the oil, vinegar, thyme and chopped onion thoroughly and then mix with the cooked leek.

Then serve the leek salad either warm or cold with the hard-boiled eggs as a starter.

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Skyramísú

Skyr - Tiramisu

Ingredients for 6 servings

8 ladyfingers
200 g nut mixture
900ml Skyr
200 ml whipping cream
1 tsp vanilla
3 Tbsp sugar
1 tsp lemon juice
Cocoa powder for sprinkling


Preparation

Chop the nuts into small pieces and heat them in a pan without fat, brown them and then let them cool well.

Crush the ladyfingers and mix with the cooled nuts.

Mix the Skyr vigorously with the whipping cream, vanilla, sugar and lemon juice.

Then add a layer of nut biscuit crumbs, then Skyr cream, then again nut biscuit crumbs etc. into the glasses or a bowl until the glasses / bowl are full . Finish with nut biscuit crumbs.

Sprinkle with a little cocoa powder and decorate with the fresh berries and let it sit in the fridge for at least 6 hours before serving.

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Eplamaukskökur

Applesauce cake

Ingredients

80g butter
150g sugar

1 tsp vanilla
2 eggs

180 g flour
2 tbsp cocoa
1 tsp baking powder
1 pinch of salt
250 ml applesauce
100g chopped dark chocolate

30 g chopped nuts

Preparation

Preheat the oven to 350 °F (180 °C) upper/lower heat.

Beat butter and sugar until fluffy.

Add the ground vanilla and eggs and mix thoroughly.

In a large bowl, mix the flour with the cocoa, baking powder and salt.

Add thebutter-sugar-egg mixture to the dry ingredients and gently stir in from the edges.

Finally add the applesauce and mix slowly but thoroughly.

Then put the dough into a springform pan lined with baking paper...

... and sprinkle with the chopped chocolate and nuts. Bake at 180 ° upper and lower heat for about 30 minutes.

Let the finished pastry cool down well...

...and cut into approx. 2 cm wide strips to eat.

Bon appetit!

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Skyrkaka með rúsínum

Baked skyr cake with raisins

Ingredients  

4 eggs
100g butter
200g sugar
200g skyr
300g flour
4 tsp baking powder
125 ml milk
1 tsp ground vanilla
150g raisins
Oil or butter for the cake pan
2 - 3 Tbsp powdered sugar  


Preparation

Preheat the oven to 350 °F (175 °C) upper/lower heat .

Separate the eggs.

Mix the egg yolks with the butter, sugar and skyr.

Then add the flour and baking powder and stir in.

Add the milk, ground vanilla and raisins.

Beat the egg white until stiff and carefully fold it into the remaining dough.

Then put the finished dough into a well-greased Bundt cake tin and bake the cake for an hour at 350 °F (175 °C).

Put the cake in the oven, let it cool briefly and turn it out of the tin, then use a sieve to sprinkle it with powdered sugar.

And here is the recipe again as a video:

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Plómusulta

Plum jam

Ingredients

1.5 kg of plums
350 ml water
3 cinnamon sticks
3 cm fresh ginger
1kg sugar
2 Tbsp butter


Preparation
 
Wash, halve and core the plums.

Put the halves of the plums in a large saucepan with the water, the cinnamon sticks and the peeled ginger...

...and let it cook for about half an hour.

Then remove the cinnamon sticks and ginger and press the plum pulp through a sieve as carefully as possible, collecting the liquid.

Then melt the butter in a saucepan, add the sugar and the reserved liquid and let it cook until the jam thickens (approx. 10 minutes).

Pour directly into glasses that have been rinsed with boiling water and allow to cool. Then store the finished jam in a cool, dark place.

By the way, in Iceland it is customary to eat jam with cheese!

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