Sweden has many different and unique types of bread and pastries that have been around for centuries. One of the most famous Swiss bread that has been around for a long time is the crisp bread. This bread has been around since 500 A.D.It is made with rye flour, salt, whole wheat, and water. This bread is stretched/pulled out or rolled out so that it is very thin. After it has been stretched out, it is cut with a hole in the middle so it can be stored on a stick. The crisp bread is baked in an oven, usually a stone one, and because it is very thin it is almost like a cracker. The crisp bread is eaten at all meals in a Swiss home. It took a while for the crisp bread to be made in bakeries because people made it so often in their homes that they did not need to go to a store to buy it.“In 1850 a bakery known as AU Bergman's enka, in Stockholm, began producing Sweden’s first industrial crisp bread.” Even though people started buying the crisp bread at bakeries, they still made it at home occasionally. 

(http://www.sweden.org.za/sweden-breads.html)

    After the crisp bread was made and was baked for many years, people started to make the tunnbrod bread. It was made with many different types of ingredients such as grains such as rye, wheat, and barley. Tunnbrod is very similar to the crisp bread expect that it is not baked until it is hard, it is usually baked until it is a little soft with some crisp to it.  It is compared to a flatbread. This bread was usually baked at home in the olden days, and it was and still is today used as a meal wrap. Swedish families would make this tunnbrod bread and would put mashed potatoes and hotdog’s inside it and wrap it and eat it like a burrito. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnbr%C3%B6d) Although it was eaten like a burrito or a wrap, it was also eaten with sauces or jam.

    A popular pastry that is commonly found all over Sweden is the semla. Selma is a dessert that is like a light fluffy bun. It has a sweet, airy, thick, whipped cream that is in dug into the middle of the bun. In the early days of the beginning of the Selma, it was baked for the Easter holiday, and on some of the other big holidays as well, or it was baked for special occasions.  It was also eaten and made for special Tuesday that they celebrated in Sweden. But as this dessert was becoming so popular throughout the years, and it tasted so good, people started baking it whenever they wanted too. As it is now baked for all occasions and for fun, the people of Sweden like to eat this Swedish pastry with a cup of coffee all throughout the day.

    Another well-loved pastry from Sweden is the cardamom bread. A cardamom bread or bun is like an American cinnamon roll. This cardamom is flavored bread, it can be made with lots of different flavors but the most common flavor and loved flavor throughout Sweden is the cinnamon style. The cardamom bread is a braided style of bread but it can be shaped many different ways and has lots of toppings added to it. In the cinnamon style cardamom bread, it is made with lots of cinnamon, it has chopped nuts added to it (usually walnuts), and it has a sweet icing glaze lightly drizzled over the top after being baked. This bread is eaten by pulling pieces apart, and it is also eaten being dipped in frosting or in hot drinks.

Pepparkakor is one of the most popular holiday desserts in Sweden. Pepparkakor cookies are thick ginger cookies. They are made a lot during the year but they are made the most and the best during the month of December for the Christmas holidays. These cookies are very similar to our ginger cookies expect that they are thicker and have more ginger added to them. Not only do the people of Sweden make these cookies to eat and enjoy them, they also use them as holiday decorations for Christmas.

            King Gustavus Adolphus the Great was a well-loved king of Sweden during the 1800’s. He was so well known and appreciated that on the 6th of November of every year the people of Sweden eat a pastry that was made in honor of him. This dessert is called the Gustavus Adolphus pastry, it was created around the late 1800’s and early 1900’s after king Gustavus Adolphus passed away.  This dessert is a tradition that has been going on for more than one hundred years, just to honor and show remembrance and gratitude to King Gustavus Adolphus the first. The Gustavus Adolphus pastry has a thick brownie like consistency on the bottom layer, and in the middle it has a cream that is mixed with a black jam. One the top layer is a thick layer of a vanilla cream, and then there is a mold of the silhouette of King Gustavus Adolphus the great  added to top it off.

http://www.swedishfood.com/swedish-food-recipes-biscuits-cakes/240-gingersnaps

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavus_Adolphus_pastry

http://www.nordstjernan.com/news/briefs/5939/

http://www.fixfeastflair.com/home/2015/2/9/swedish-cardamom-rolls-kardemummabullar-recipe

https://sweden.se/culture-traditions/the-semla-more-than-just-a-bun/

http://www.mjalloms.se/en/historia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnbr%C3%B6d

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semla