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Ostkaka

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Ostkaka is a Swedish sweet dessert, sometimes called Swedish cheesecake or curd cake, with two regional forms: a smooth, halloumi-like version from Hälsingland and a grainier, lumpier version from Småland. The traditional recipe uses milk, cream, flour and rennet, often enriched with sugar, eggs, almonds, bitter almond or saffron, and the finished cake is crustless and served tepid rather than hot. It is considered one of Sweden's unofficial national dishes, served at Midsummer in Hälsingland and at Christmas in Småland, and Hälsingland hosts a world championship in ostkaka; Sweden has marked November 14 as an official Day of Ostkaka since 2004. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Classification
Course
Dessert 1
Origin Region
Sweden 2
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In Cuisine

Swedish Cuisine, Cuisines
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Uses Ingredient

Almond, Ingredients
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Cream, Ingredients
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Egg, Ingredients
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Flour, Ingredients
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Milk, Ingredients
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Rennet, Ingredients
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Saffron, Ingredients
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Sugar, Ingredients
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  • Also in Geography Atlas: Sweden, originated there.
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1. Ostkaka (Wikipedia)
  • entity description (course)
    Ostkaka is a Swedish sweet dessert, sometimes called Swedish cheesecake or curd cake, with two regional forms: a smooth, halloumi-like version from Hälsingland and a grainier, lumpier version from Småland.
  • Uses Ingredient: Sugar, Infobox main_ingredient field: milk, cream, flour, rennet (sugar, eggs, almonds, bitter almond, saffron)
  • Uses Ingredient: Milk, Infobox main_ingredient field: milk, cream, flour, rennet (sugar, eggs, almonds, bitter almond, saffron)
  • Uses Ingredient: Saffron, Infobox main_ingredient field: milk, cream, flour, rennet (sugar, eggs, almonds, bitter almond, saffron)
  • Uses Ingredient: Almond, Infobox main_ingredient field: milk, cream, flour, rennet (sugar, eggs, almonds, bitter almond, saffron)
  • Uses Ingredient: Cream, Infobox main_ingredient field: milk, cream, flour, rennet (sugar, eggs, almonds, bitter almond, saffron)
  • Uses Ingredient: Egg, Infobox main_ingredient field: milk, cream, flour, rennet (sugar, eggs, almonds, bitter almond, saffron)
  • Uses Ingredient: Flour, Infobox main_ingredient field: milk, cream, flour, rennet (sugar, eggs, almonds, bitter almond, saffron)
  • Uses Ingredient: Rennet, Infobox main_ingredient field: milk, cream, flour, rennet (sugar, eggs, almonds, bitter almond, saffron)
  • In Cuisine: Swedish Cuisine, lead paragraph
    It is a Swedish sweet dessert that has its roots in two different parts of Sweden, Hälsingland and Småland, though there are some differences between ostkaka from Hälsingland resembling halloumi in texture, and the soft-grained ostkaka from Småland.
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2. Ostkaka (Wikidata)
P495 (country of origin): Sweden
Quote, P495 (country of origin): Sweden
Sweden
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