Once or twice over the course of this blog’s short existence I’ve written about some of my traditional family recipes. If there was an urtext that was the ultimate and prototypical family recipe growing up, then it was the recipe for Swedish Rye Bread. My mother’s family is 100% German and my father’s is correspondingly 100% Swedish. So, one might naturally think that it was my father responsible for introducing and making this bread.
Reality however is much less clear. It was an ongoing debate in my house as to whether my mother or father is responsible for learning this recipe from my Grandmother on the Swedish side. Each one claims credit for the original making of the bread. I, not wanting to get in the middle of such an amusing (and not entirely in jest) feud, will take no position. Not that I really have any basis to weigh in with my opinion anyway.
Pie are Round 