10 Things You Can Find in Finnish Homes - Suomalainen in Canada

hi welcome back today's video is going to be about 10 finished things that i have in my home i live in british columbia canada and this video could be really really long but i've made this part one and i'm going to show you 10 things that i have that many finnish people have in their homes i think these are all things that i've grown up with and i want to show them to you right now also i have a playlist for various categories that you can check out i have playlists on essential oils diy projects product reviews and you'll find this video and the part two that i'll be putting up in the playlist titled finland so if you end up liking this video give it a thumbs up because then i'll know that i'll make part two and maybe even part three for this so i'm just gonna go through these items can i show them to you briefly just give you a little bit of an outline and if you're interested in more information about any of the things that i show you or talk about then leave me a comment and i'll look into making another video about it if you show me that you're interested so a little bit of background i moved from helsinki finland so finland is called swami in finnish and i moved when i was 6 years old with my family my mom and dad and my sister we moved to canada to british columbia and we lived in the vancouver lower mainland area and basically i've lived here all my life my family moved back to helsinki i stayed in canada i had more brothers and sisters by at this point my parents my grandparents on both my mom and dad's side have passed away so i'm kind of the oldest in the family so i've accumulated these things through my grandparents my mom and dad even my aunts and uncles so they've been in my family at some point and some things you'll see are items that we we buy on a regular basis and we used to have these in our home all the time growing up so here we go the first part will be more kitchen items and then i'll go into some other things okay so the first thing i'm going to show you is this guy this is something we grew up with all the time in the house and it's a butter knife it's made out of a very soft wood and i remember having these all the time growing up since i was a little kid and apparently they use them in finland too so they make them out of very soft wood and if you think about bamboo that's what it seems like to me so i had to actually google this because i'm not sure what this is made out of so it looks like they could be made from anything from juniper it says juniper butter knives maybe even birch which is a common tree in finland most of the butter knives that i see online are made from juniper wood so i'm not 100 sure what this is but i know that we use this this was always in the butter dish when we were putting butter on our rye bread which is the next thing i'm going to show you so i was lucky enough to find a bakery here that has a traditional finished rye bread recipe and i'm going to keep it in the plastic here because i have this in my freezer i buy several of these at a time and put them in my freezer and this rye bread has a hole in the middle because rye is a sturdier grain that holds up to mold and mildew and when food was scarce they discovered that making bread sourdough bread sour type of a rye bread out of rye was able to be kept for a lot longer periods and the reason that this hole is in the middle of the rye bread is because they used to hang it in the rafters they put a pole through it and be hanging in the ceilings that's what i've learned anyways but rye bread is not like a soft fluffy bread you need to have a good good teeth to eat into and bite into it and it's basically it's a finnish tradition it's the food of finland you have to have rye bread and i think every finn loves rye bread or roy slaypa as we call it so the next thing i'm going to show you is this [Music] it looks like a cast iron frying pan except it has these little small little indented areas and this is what we would make our leftoja in let your finished pancakes or some people call them finished crepes so it's very a very thin batter and we would pour the batter and into these little round areas on the cast frying pan and fry them up and eat them like that and we would usually have them with jam and some kind of a like strawberry or berry preserves and whipped cream because when i was growing up in finland and then when we moved to canada we didn't have maple syrup i don't i didn't know what maple syrup was so it was with berries and whipped cream we'd have our lettuce which are the finished crepes or pancakes and sometimes i guess you could call them silver dollars but they were just a cute perfect size and i've actually finally learned how to veganize them so i made some the other day and it was so good because it just brought back so many memories this is not from my family my sister actually found it in a yard sale and i don't know where it's from but it's exactly what we used to use at home growing up all right the next thing this one's a big one it's called arabia arapia is a company that's been around i had to look it up too and i'm just having a peek at my laptop 1873 a swedish person named rostrand and i probably didn't pronounce that at all well uh constructed a finnish factory in a part of helsinki that was called arabia and that's where he started this company and it has evolved into a company that makes a beautiful pots and dishes and things like that and this one is i think this was my grandmother's and it's a heavy enamel or cast iron stone stoneware dish and we would make carrialand baisti in this finland is really known for cooking their pork and meat and it carried is a type of a pork stew but not really a stew but the pork would be slow cooked so that was just falling apart in a gravy and you'd have that with little new potatoes or mashed potatoes and that's what i remember my grandmother in cooking in this was tea and gariyala is a area of finland which used to be ruled by russia finland is a small country that was always in a battle by being overtaken either by sweden or russia so it was always fighting for independence and it was always battling uh russia and sweden so there's a lot of intermixing and especially of swedish heritage in finland so this this is from um from arabia a well-known old factory kitchenware and i'm sure they make other things company in helsinki so another food item is um this is just the same similar to crisp bread or rye bread or wasa bread that you can buy in most grocery stores and it's uh on the same lines as my roy slate by the rye bread but this is like a cracker form so i'll show you what it looks like it's just a very thin rye crispy type cracker and you can buy these in the store this one i ordered from a company that ships from finland so i haven't actually seen this brand in the store local stores like the swedish brands that you can see and fin crisp but this one is from uh finland and it's happened i can't even say the company name ol olu linen but these are good too with a the fins usually have them with a slice of cheese and maybe some cucumber or tomatoes on top okay this one is really near and dear to my heart because this was my mother's probably her first cookbook this is very old very loved very used gaito airing cool tine and kiria so this means kitchen mom's golden book that's my translation of it and my mom used to this is like the julia child cookbook it's like uh it's got everything from a to z in cooking in here and i remember my mom using it and then when i learned to bake this is very spattered splattered with batter because i remember looking in here and figuring out how to make cake recipes and making cake from here when i was just a little girl so this is a really old book and it's stated oh i've had it's taped together i just have to look after this so well because oh the page that has the copyright date is gone there is a date here it says 1966 so it's at least from 1966. i think i'm finished the kitchen portion of this so i'm going to go on to the next thing which is um this is a frame and recently the glass broke from it but this was um i think my dad made this in school uh when they had classes like we we had whole neck and woodwork and metalwork and i think this frame was made by him so i'm gonna see if i can get a piece of glass for this but otherwise it we used to have um we have pictures of you know um old pictures in these but this frame it it's sentimental because we've had it since i was a baby i've had it forever so i'm sad that the glass broke out of it the next thing i have is a piece of crocheted lace this is something that i remember my grandmother and my mom doing they would crochet with the finest finest cotton and make bed spreads or lace things i want to call them doilies well they made a lot of doilies too but they made these things and they put them over the bed um to i guess decorate them and make them look pretty this is starting to get very kind of um tinged with yellow and aged looking i've tried to keep it safe and in a sealed container so i'm not sure if this is from my mom or my grandmother but one of them crocheted this this is something else that i've had forever and this is very old this is um a sheet from my dad's mom so my grandmother and why i find it so precious is this order here has been crocheted by her and it was done when she was a young probably a teenager and she also has her maiden name initials embroidered in here her name was aune and her her last name before she got married was bark so she had a swedish dad and it's a swedish name so i wanna bark and that's hers so my grandmother's when she was very young before she got married she crocheted and embroidered this sheet and i still have it and i don't use it and i keep it seat in a sealed bag all right so this is the last thing i have and this is um from it's either from my grandmother on my mom's side or my my mom's sister but this is um i can't caleb this is um what i would call i haven't read it it honestly doesn't interest me but it's a mythological tales of finland and let me see who wrote this this is written by i think the person's name is yoko dolbanen okay the only date i can find in here is eighteen 1890 i'm not sure if that was the copyright date when it was written like the book i mean obviously it's old old stories and it looks like which sounds like poems to me and the pictures in here are quite interesting so this was passed down to us and um i'm just going to keep it so i hope you enjoyed this video if you did give it a thumbs up then i'll know you liked it and i'll do a second part i've got lots more finished things that have been in my family and that are hidden all over the house that i have to collect but i will be happy to make another video with some more finished things and if you want to know anything about a particular topic or item here just leave me a comment and i'll be happy to make a video on it so i hope you have a great week coming up and stay healthy bye

Channel: Anneli Schmidt

Views: 126

Rating: 5 out of 5

Keywords: Finnish home, Suomi, Suomalainen in Canada, Finnish home things, Finnish culture, Scandinavian home, Anneli Schmidt, #Suomalainen, #Suomi, #Finland, #Finnishhomes

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Length: 14min 16sec (856 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 29 2021