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Food
Ten Finnish dishes you have to try
From creamy salmon soup to Karelian pies and liquorice ice cream, a tour of Finnish comfort food.
- Lohikeitto — salmon soup with dill and cream
- Karjalanpiirakka — rye pastries with rice porridge and egg butter
- Korvapuusti — the cardamom-cinnamon bun
- Muikku — fried vendace from the market
- Ruisleipä — dark sourdough rye bread
- Poronkäristys — sautéed reindeer with mash and lingonberries
- Leipäjuusto — squeaky bread cheese with cloudberry jam
- Salmiakki — salty liquorice, an acquired taste
- Mustikkapiirakka — blueberry pie
- Lonkero — the gin long drink invented for the 1952 Olympics
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