On Popular Demand: The Swedish Pancake Recipe

• 2.5 dl flour


• 1 tea spoon salt


• 3-4 eggs


• 6 dl milk

Mix flour, salt and eggs. If you're using an iron casket pan you might want to add some fat too. Add a little bit of milk (~1dl) and mix until smooth. Once you've gotten rid of all chunks of flour, add the rest of the milk. Warm up the pan, add fat if necessairy. Put some of the mix in the hot pan and tilt it so that all of the pans bottom if covered by a thin layer. Once the pancake becomes solid enough you flip it and wait another minute or so until it looks good.

Serve with ice cream, cream, butter, sugar, jam (cloudberry is excellent!), blue berries, strawberries, apples or whatever you like.

If you don't have the patience to make pancakes this way you can pour the same pancake mix into an owen form and bake it for 45 min on 225C. For extra credit add some apple slices in there and some cinamon on top.

Weekend @ Villa Vista


Villa Vista is a nice old fasion wooden cabin a stone throw from the entrance to the Hurricane Ridge in the Olympic Peninsula. There are two minimalistic bedrooms, a small bath room, kitchen with iron cascet frypans - perfect for making Swedish pancaces - and a living room with a great view over the lake. The living room is heated by a pellet eating fireplace which produces more that enough heat as long as it doesn't run out of pellets.


The cabin is very well maintained by the friendly owners, Mary and John, who lives next door. When we arrived, the fireplace was lit and Mary had stocked up some cookies and coffee for us. We unloaded the car and drove up to the top of the Hurricane ridge and walked around on various paths for some hours. The walk was very easy - a man on crutches passed us - and the view amazing, we saw both remote glaciers and Victoria island.


We returned to the cabin as the sun was setting behind the mountains and spent the night cooking food (fettucino alfredo, mmm!), drinking flaggpunsch, and playing hold 'em and dize while listening through my collection of gangsta rap. Back to nature, ey? The next day we had pancakes with cloudberry jam for breakfast and went for a short row on the lake before we checked out.

For more information on the cabin, check out http://www.olympicgetaways.com/villavista/index.html.