Shrove Tuesday = Fettisdag
Pancake Day = Fettisdag
Semla = cream bun eaten during Lent
One semla, several semlor

On Tuesday 6 weeks before Easter, vi celebrate Fettisdag. In Sweden we use to eat a kind of bun with almond paste and cream in it. You cut off the top of the bun and make a hollow in the under part of the bun. Then you put almond paste and cream in the hollow. After it, put back the top on the bun. We use to eat the semlor at Lent time.

But you already can buy the semlor in January. We only eat the semlor on Tuesdays. You can eat the semla to your coffee. But you also can eat the bun, (semla) on a deep plate with hot milk beside the semla. Thatis an old fashioned way to eat it. Nowadays most people only eat it with black coffee. You can bake the semlor yourself or buy them in the shop.

We have brown beans in a brown sauce and salted fried pork to lunch or dinner. It's the meaning you shall eat much because later fasting begins and then you may not eat so much.

Formerly fettisdag was a real festivity for the people who lived in the wood cabins. They got free from work and they went to dancing at night. They played accordion and fiddle to the dance. Unfortunately people even were drinking that night.

Nowadays you also can get free. But not people all  get free. At my work we got 4 hours free to go out and do som exercising. But if it is minus 20 degrees Celsius (-4 F), nobody want to go out. This day the university has the Student Sport Day. And we who are working also get free to do some sport.