Yew Jens Dahl is a real baking geek. He loves to bake - and not least to decorate and arrange the cakes so that they look delicious and inviting.
- I have always baked - and many of my baking recipes are ones that I learned from my mother when I was a child in Qaqortoq, says Tiiu Jens Dahl.
He has been sailing for many years - and of course has worked in the galley. Among other things on Sarfaq Ittuk on the ship's trips up and down the west coast.
- We after all, cooked for both the passengers and the crew. Every Wednesday we had a little one gathering for the crew – and I always baked buns there. Freshly baked lune buns straight out of the oven. It was a great success - and it was something everyone was looking forward to to, says the baking-loving sailor, who has continued to cultivate the art of baking, after he moved to Aalborg eight years ago.
Bid after the baked goods until Christmas
Also here there are bids for his baked goods - and it is often he who is responsible for the cakes and the buns in the cafe on the second floor of Det Grønlandske Hus in Aalborg.
Here meet many Greenlanders almost daily and enjoy themselves with card games, singing and music - and then there are cakes on the table on Thursdays, when there is too communal dining in the late afternoon.
For a few weeks ago the menu in the evening was on smoked fish, but before then reigned Tiiu in the small kitchen and offered buns, rum balls and Greenlandic cake.
- Because now it's almost Christmas - and Christmas is a real baking time, Tiiu explains there got help with the rum balls from Else Josefine Sørensen, who originally originated from Sisimiut.
- But the recipe is my mother's. It has never been written down because I have it in me head - and I've always had that since I made rum balls for the first time as a five-year-old.
Greenlandic cake
Here is Tiiu Jens Dahl's recipe for Greenlandic cake.
Ingredients:
First mix the wet ingredients – eggs, warm butter and honey. Then stir in the rest the dough becomes firm enough to shape. The dough must then rise for 2 x 20 minutes and then bake in the oven at 200 degrees for 30 – 35 minutes in the middle groove.
