Pulla bread recipe

This recipe is from one of my mother's sisters, my Aunt Linda, who had married into a Finnish family. The word pulla technically just means "buns" but often refers to this somewhat sweet, rich bread, also known as Kahvileipä (coffee bread), or even just nisu (wheat). I've been making it since I was quite young, and no longer have any sense of how close my recipe, with my penchant for adjusting things, has remained. It scores big points with every Scandinavian I've fed it to, though…

In Scandinavia, there is a tradition of baking a cardamom-filled bread called pulla. Find out how to make this comforting Finnish cardamom bread at home!

Finnish Nissua (Pulla)!: I am SO in love with this! Why? Let me count the ways... 1) It's delicious 2) It's truly beautiful, like a work of art 3) It's delicious 4) It fills the house with wonderful aromas 5) Have I told you it's deeelicious? Now, I know what you're thinkin…

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