The importance of semlor

Today was “fettisdagen", the last day before the fast. This day (and actually ever since Christmas…), a tradition has developed of eating buns, called “fastlagsbullar” or “semlor”. We baked the buns just before midnight, so we had to hurry up in order to eat the semals when it was still “fettisdagen”. Well, it was not very easy to hurry up since Anna had her mixer (to whip the cream) in one of her 100 moving boxes… So when we saw a girl coming home, living in the same house as Anna, we asked if we could borrow hers, which we could. We invited her for a semla and this was how we got to know Emelie.