There is a saying in Finland: A loved child has many names. This most certainly applies to our loved coffee bread. Nowadays, the whole of Finland calls this soft cardamom bread with a name, “pulla.” We spice this treat with caramel, vanilla cream, pistachio, almond butter, strawberry jam…you name it, and all of it is called pulla.

But there is a western regional dialect where this delicacy is still called, “nisu.” Other dialects call it “venhänen."

For some the Nisu is the braided version of this delicacy, some like to keep it to its original vocabulary form of “breast - nisä,’ when it’s round and looks like an American dinner roll.

But believe it oro not, the name is just as important to cherish as the product. So. Whichever name you are using, please continue, and come bake it.

We are going ot make and bake the dough at Saima Park and make either pulla or nisu. If we get enough interest in the cinnamony-cousin of the pulla/nisu, we will even bake korvapuusti!

Let us know if you want to make pulla/nius or korvapuusti, and we will arrange it.

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