I've heard about Shrove Sunday for years. I remember my mother always supporting the Sanitetsforeningen, nice older ladies who stood around selling Shrove rice. She thought it was so nice to bring some color into the house when it was so cold and white everywhere, now I'm talking about several decades ago. Picking and decorating is done by volunteers and the collection goes to the elderly and sick. The tradition started in 1946 and annually about 7 million kroner is collected for the purpose.
THE HISTORY
I've never really thought about what Shrove Tuesday is, I remember we baked buns for kindergarten, Carnival was approaching and it wasn't long until winter break. So now it was time to find out. The word Shrove Tuesday comes from the Latin vastel-avent, originally it was used on the evening before Lent, but Lent didn't start until Ash Wednesday. That's seven weeks until Easter, for fun I looked at the 2015 calendar and compared. Of course it's true! Shrove Sunday and Shrove Tuesday are on the calendar, which is actually exactly how we calculate Indian holidays. Eventually the day got the name Shrove Sunday, Monday became Shrove Monday and Tuesday became Shrove Tuesday. So it was anything but fasting! You were supposed to fatten up before the 40-day fast until Easter. The Wednesday called Ash Wednesday is the first day of fasting.
Where does the rice come in? Well, from an old custom, rice marked the transition from winter to spring and a symbol of fertility awakening. Women, earth, trees and animals were whipped with rice! The rice was supposed to be made of birch without leaves. At this time, the birch is full of buds and was called the branch of life. Decorating the rice with colored pieces of cloth started in Germany and over time they switched to colored feathers. Then I know! So with Lent you should have good food and wheat flour was used for parties, that's why buns with cream and filling were baked. Over time, I have become more careful with wheat flour, one of the children also needed to cut out wheat flour. Here I have tested a new recipe and the result got the comment: "insanely good!"
I'm happy to have a slightly healthier option for both her and all of us. Gluten-free flour (semper lys mix / jyttemjøl) can be used instead of spelt.
Allergy-friendly Lenten lavender buns
12 pcs
200 g chickpea flour (own advertising)
200 g gluten-free/ spelt flour
120-140 g natural sugar / sugar
½ pkg yeast
3 tsp ground cardamom
80 g rapeseed oil
3 tablespoons of fiber husk
3 dl milk/water
Procedure:
- Dissolve yeast and 1 tsp of the sugar in 2 tbsp of lukewarm water. Mix the fiber husk in some of the liquid and mix everything into a dough. Let rise for about 1 hour.
- Shape into balls and let rise for 30 minutes.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes at 225 degrees.