Thanks to Juggler gifting me with a jar, I’ve been finally able to enjoy hjortronsylt (cloudberry) jam! Yum! It truly is a new berry flavor I’d never encountered before, and it’s delicious on a freshly toasted english muffin slathered with butter.
Anybody else enjoy hjortronsylt? Any other exotic berries or jams out there I should be trying?
(Juggler’s salty licorice was nice too, but still not so salty as the dutch Dubbel Zout. Which was nice, no ammonia aftertaste!)
I’ve had fresh cloudberries dumped on top vanilla ice cream. It was a good thing. I also had some huckleberry soda last week. Tasted like grape.
Where did Juggler get it? I just got a jar of lingonberry jam from Ikea. I thought about getting a jar of cloudberry jam there too, but I decided not to.
Hjortron is a specialty of my home province. Seeing a thread about it on SDMB makes me feel special.
Like Tapioca said, it goes very well with vanilla ice cream. What I like to do, actually, is not serve it fresh (which is good too, of course) but warm it up. You can use a microwave for that.
In Swedish cuisine, hjortron and lingon have different applicancies. Hjortron is sweeter and can be used for desserts (for example in pies) or with fermented milk (another regional specialty).
Lingon, traditionally, is combined with different meats. Especially, but not exclusively, meatballs.
Only one vowel (repeated once)?
I think I’d rather be coprophagic.
At least that has 3 vowels.
KIDDING!!! I am Kidding, okay??? 
It’s just that I know my fellow “Q-Bro” is a doc that I posted this - hoping he’d get a laugh out of it!
Unless he’s a “fecal-cephalic”! 
Which I doubt, since he is such a great resource to all of us here!
Dr. Qad?
You rock!
Quasi (with a “u”)
What do cloudberries taste like? Are they anything like cranberries in flavor? Because when my wife and I got temporarily lost in Rondane National Forest, I started eating these unidentified berries that I found growing on a mountaintop, much to my wife’s dismay; they were delicious, tasted precisely like sweetened cranberries.
No, they really don’t taste like anything you’re used to; they have this weird, almost musky flavor to them.
Qadgop, try spooning the cloudberries over mild cheese (like you hear about people putting preserves on top of Brie). The Finns put cloudberry preserves over “Lapp cheese”, which is one of those young, mild cheeses akin to paneer.
There’s also cloudberry liqueur, which is quite nice.
Hmmmm, put in on mild cheese…
I’ll need to get mild cheese in order to try that. The mildest stuff I have in my fridge right now is 2 year old swiss. Maybe on some fresh cheddar curds? Or some Farmer cheese.
Putting it warm on vanilla iced cream sure sounds like a winner, too.
The stuff originated in Sweden and arrived at my door via the US mail, that’s all I know.
(actually it got misdelivered to my neighbor, who called me to go get it. Somehow that makes it even more exotic!)
Whoops, forget to reply to this bit. You might want to poke through this list and see if anything looks interesting.
I’ve had cloudberry jam in northern Sweden and really enjoyed it. I also had a smoked mountain char wrap that had cloudberry in it and was divine.
hmmm, my next trip to Ikea will entail picking up some hjortron along with the rye crackers they do so well.
Hmmm, Lavender jam could be interesting, but Marion Berry Jelly? :eek:
I think not! I lived near DC in the 70’s and 80’s.
There is a fruit called Marionberry?
Yes:
As a former resident of the Pacific Northwest, I was horrified at the dearth of berry varieties to be found in California. I want my boysenberry syrup!
You should try rose hip jam - it’s absolutely wonderful. Like the hjortronsylt it can be eaten on its own or with vanilla ice cream or cheese. I have no idea whether rose hip jam is exotic or not, btw, but I have only met a few people who have tried it.
My girlfriend makes it herself, continuing a long tradition of rose hip jam-making from my family
Ooooo. Cloudberry liqueur. I bought a bottle of it on the overnight boat from Turku, Finland, to Stockholm and have not gotten over it. That was only 17 years ago.
I’m holding out for snozzberries.
I made my sister get it a grocery store and send it to Qadgop. I haven’t seen it at the IKEA in Cyprus.
This is the way I would recommend cloudberries (not the huckleberry soda part)
Oh, Hjortron! I love them, but haven’t had any in quite a while. There’s an ice cream maker in Sweden that does excellent cloudberry sorbet. Just thinking about it makes my mouth water.
We used to do a lot of berry picking when I was a kid, and I remember hjortron being especially annoying as they grew on a mire, so you frequently got your boots stuck, got wet and everything stank. It was worth it, though.
