Joe We had a beautiful week here—clear and sunny, with highs in the
mid 20s—but nothing lasts forever, and today has been gray, wet, and
19°. In response, we decided to have a movie afternoon, so in honor of our recent stay in the former East Berlin we re-watched the excellent
Das Leben der Anderen. And since the weather has suddenly become autumnal, I decided to make us an extremely traditional autumn fika treat: Swedish
äppelkaka. It's a very simple recipe, one that everyone in Sweden should have learned from their
mormor. It's too simple, in fact, to show up in any of our cookbooks, so I was forced to
googlar it. I eventually settled on a combination of two recipes, mainly a very traditional one from
Dorie Greenspan. The other was a recipe that Jennifer found, which suggested sautéing the apples in butter and cinnamon beforehand. Here's what I did:
