Swedish baking today

I just recently got this recipe from my Mom, who got it from her sister-in-law, Elsie. So they'll be called Elsie's what? Rolls? Breads? In Swedish, they're called Tekakor, whish translates to Tea cookies/cakes. But they are more like bread rolls. Anyway, they turned out delish! We eat them with jam and cheese. I see lots of these in the future, for 'fika' meetings. Fika is a Swedish term, un-translateable. It's a get-together with friends or family, and coffee is always involved. Often baked goods are too! Fika is definately part of the Swedish life style.

Here's the batch, fresh out of the oven (I got to use my new circle cookie cutters):

 

All dolled up, with cheese and apricot jam :

Here's the recipe, using metric measurements. Converted American recipe to follow at some point...

3dl milk

1.5 dl oats

50gr butter or margarine

1 tbs Swedish sirap (molasses)

2 tsp salt

2 dl cold milk (yes you use milk twice)

2 pkg yeast

8+3 dl wheat flour

2 tsp baking powder

Mix 3 dl milk and the oats in small pan and let it cook on low-medium heat until it's oatmeal-y in texture; I think it took 3-4 minutes at the most. Pull pan off stove and add margarine and mix until melted. Add sirap (molasses), salt and the rest of the milk.add the yeast and pour everything into your mixer. Add 8dl of flour.

In separate bowl, mix 3dl flour and baking powder. Add to other ingredients and mix until it doesn't stick to the edges of the bowl anymore.

Roll out dough and cut out circles (3-4" diameter) with cookie cutter. 

Place on parchement lined cookie sheets and let them rise for 40 mins.

Bake in 435F oven, for 10 minutes.