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Grandma Helny's Old-Fashioned Swede-Finn Recipes
Grandma Helny's Old-Fashioned Swede-Finn Recipes
Grandma Helny's Old-Fashioned Swede-Finn Recipes
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Grandma Helny's Old-Fashioned Swede-Finn Recipes

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In 1906, Grandma Helny came from a small town in Finland to an American rural community in Rochester, Washington. She brought with her a collection of 48 old recipes, which have been translated into English and assembled into this ebook. You'll find recipes for biscuits, cookies, casseroles, pancakes, breads, soups, drinks, fish, and meat dishes. This little book also includes a short glossary of Swedish and Finnish names for each dish.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherJoelle Steele
Release dateApr 11, 2014
ISBN9781940388106
Grandma Helny's Old-Fashioned Swede-Finn Recipes
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Joelle Steele

Joelle Steele writes mystery and ghost novels and non-fiction books about face & ear ID, handwriting forgery, art, astrology, cat care, genealogy, and horticulture. And, she is a legal writer of contract templates for small business. She has extensive published credits and has worked as a writer, editor, and publisher since 1973.

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    Grandma Helny's Old-Fashioned Swede-Finn Recipes - Joelle Steele

    Grandma Helny's Old-Fashioned Swede-Finn Recipes

    By Joelle Steele

    Copyright Joelle Steele 2014

    Published by Many Hats Publications/Joelle Steele Enterprises Publishing at Smashwords

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    Table of Contents

    Dedication

    Preface & Acknowledgments

    Introduction

    Breads, Pancakes, & Desserts

    Soup & Stock

    Casseroles

    Fish & Meat

    Miscellaneous

    Glossary

    Other Books by Joelle Steele

    About the Author

    Dedication

    To my Swede-Finn grandmother:

    Helny Maria Andersdotter Furu Forström Steele

    July 4, 1885 - April 20, 1968

    Preface & Acknowledgments

    My mother's side of the family are Swede-Finns who originally came from a small town called Terjärv, located in the Ostrobothnia area of Finland. My grandfather, Anders Joel Sandkulla Stål (Joel Steele), came to America in 1907, a year after my grandmother, Helny Maria Andersdotter Furu (Helny Anderson), arrived. They both settled in Rochester, Washington, a farming and lumber community in southwestern Washington. My grandmother married shortly after arriving, was widowed in 1917, and married my grandfather in 1919. They had two daughters, one of whom was my mother, Norma Elisabeth Steele (Martelli).

    In about 1984, a year or so before she died, my mother gave me some recipes that her sister, Lillian, gave her after my grandmother died. They were written in Swedish on very old and fragile paper. I don't speak Swedish, but my mother translated most of them. In 1992, I gave the remaining few, which were very faded and difficult to read, to a young Swedish student at UCLA, and she translated them into English for me. I then edited them with the help of my friend and fellow editor, Gretchen Wilding. I have made all of these recipes, except for the lutfisk and anything with cabbage, cauliflower, rutabagas, or turnips in it.

    Unfortunately, I never knew my grandmother very well because I grew up in California and

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