What to eat in Stockholm
Sweden beyond meatballs: toast Skagen, gravlax, pickled herring, meatballs with lingonberry, semla in season, fika and a snaps.

[ ] Eat köttbullar with lingonberry
    Small meatballs with a cream gravy, mashed potato, lingonberry jam and a pickled cucumber. The lingonberry is not a dessert but the acidity that carries the dish.
[ ] Try toast Skagen
    Small prawns with dill, mayonnaise and lemon on butter-fried bread, topped with a spoon of roe. Invented by a Swedish restaurateur in the 1950s and now a classic.
[ ] Try gravlax
    Salmon cured in salt, sugar and dill without heat, served with a mustard and dill hovmästarsås. The name means buried salmon; the fish really was once buried to ferment.
[ ] Try pickled herring
    Herring in a dozen marinades: mustard, dill, onion, sour cream. Eaten with boiled potatoes, hard-boiled egg, sour cream and crisp knäckebröd.
[ ] Take the dagens lunch
    The weekday set lunch: a hot dish, salad bar, bread and butter and coffee at one price. The best value in the city, and it runs until about two.
[ ] Try raggmunk
    Potato pancakes fried in butter with crisp bacon and lingonberry. A plain winter dish from husmanskost, the Swedish home repertoire.
[ ] Get a smörgås
    An open sandwich on crisp or soft bread with prawns, egg, smoked fish or cheese. The base of a Swedish breakfast and a light lunch.
[ ] Eat crayfish in August
    Crayfish boiled with dill and salt, eaten cold with your hands alongside snaps and songs. The season is August, and it is less a dish than a party.
[ ] Try husmanskost
    Swedish home cooking: cabbage rolls, salted herring with potato, pork ribs, fish balls. Plain filling food served in older restaurants at lunch.
[ ] Get a korv from a kiosk
    A boiled or grilled sausage in a roll with mustard, ketchup, fried onion and mashed potato if you ask. Street food that runs late.
[ ] Eat a kanelbulle
    A yeast bun with cinnamon and cardamom, topped with pearl sugar. The essential partner to fika, and it has its own day in the calendar: the fourth of October.
[ ] Try a semla in season
    A cardamom bun filled with almond paste and whipped cream with a lid on top. The season runs from January to Easter, and outside it they are scarce.
[ ] Try prinsesstårta
    Sponge with layers of custard and whipped cream under a dome of green marzipan topped with a rose. A celebration cake sold by the slice in any bakery.
[ ] Try filmjölk
    A cultured milk drink thicker than kefir and milder in flavour, eaten at breakfast with muesli and jam. Supermarkets devote a whole shelf to it.
[ ] Have coffee with a påtår
    Swedes are among the world's heaviest coffee drinkers per head, and the second cup is free almost everywhere. The word påtår means exactly that refill.
[ ] Try snaps
    A spirit flavoured with caraway, dill or St John's wort, drunk in small glasses with herring and crayfish, and always preceded by a song.

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