# Enjoying my hjortronsylt **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 11, 2009, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-my-hjortronsylt/492755 "2009-04-11T18:16:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2009, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-my-hjortronsylt/492755/1 "2009-04-11T18:16:57Z")
Thanks to **Juggler** gifting me with a jar, I’ve been finally able to enjoy [hjortronsylt](http://www.butik-hemlangtan.se/varor/Onos.Hjortronsylt.410gr.40kr.jpg) (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!) ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2009, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-my-hjortronsylt/492755/2 "2009-04-11T19:05:22Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2009, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-my-hjortronsylt/492755/3 "2009-04-11T19:05:39Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2009, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-my-hjortronsylt/492755/4 "2009-04-11T22:40:47Z")
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](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultured_milk) (another regional specialty). Lingon, traditionally, is combined with different meats. Especially, but not exclusively, meatballs. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2009, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-my-hjortronsylt/492755/5 "2009-04-11T23:03:03Z")
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”) ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2009, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-my-hjortronsylt/492755/6 "2009-04-11T23:26:19Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2009, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-my-hjortronsylt/492755/7 "2009-04-11T23:48:46Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > What do cloudberries taste like? Are they anything like cranberries in flavor? 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. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2009, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-my-hjortronsylt/492755/8 "2009-04-12T00:19:56Z")
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!) ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2009, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-my-hjortronsylt/492755/9 "2009-04-12T03:40:41Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Any other exotic berries or jams out there I should be trying? Whoops, forget to reply to this bit. You might want to poke through [this list](http://www.woodringnorthwest.com/index.php?cPath=24) and see if anything looks interesting. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stafford_cripps/32/7167_2.png) [@The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stafford_Cripps)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2009, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-my-hjortronsylt/492755/10 "2009-04-12T09:31:07Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2009, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-my-hjortronsylt/492755/11 "2009-04-12T11:21:42Z")
hmmm, my next trip to Ikea will entail picking up some hjortron along with the rye crackers they do so well. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2009, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-my-hjortronsylt/492755/12 "2009-04-12T14:19:36Z")
> [@Hunter\_Hawk](#): > > Whoops, forget to reply to this bit. You might want to poke through [this list](http://www.woodringnorthwest.com/index.php?cPath=24) and see if anything looks interesting. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2009, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-my-hjortronsylt/492755/13 "2009-04-12T14:26:49Z")
> [@Hunter\_Hawk](#): > > You might want to poke through [this list](http://www.woodringnorthwest.com/index.php?cPath=24) and see if anything looks interesting. There is a fruit called Marionberry? ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2009, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-my-hjortronsylt/492755/14 "2009-04-12T14:31:00Z")
Yes: > **[Marionberry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marionberry)** > > The marionberry (Rubus L. subgenus Rubus) is a cultivar of blackberry released in 1956 by the USDA Agricultural Research Service breeding program in cooperation with Oregon State University. It is named after Marion County, Oregon where the berry was bred and tested extensively in the mid-20th century. > A cross between the 'Chehalem' and 'Olallie' varieties, it is the most widely planted cultivated blackberry in the world. Marionberries account for 90% of the worldwide acreage of cultivated blac... ---
**Author:** ![runcible\_spoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc29f/32.png) [@runcible\_spoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/runcible_spoon)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2009, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-my-hjortronsylt/492755/15 "2009-04-12T17:10:19Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2009, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-my-hjortronsylt/492755/16 "2009-04-12T19:25:21Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-my-hjortronsylt/492755/17 "2009-04-13T05:09:54Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-my-hjortronsylt/492755/18 "2009-04-13T13:40:12Z")
I’m holding out for snozzberries. ---
**Author:** ![Juggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/juggler/32/3194_2.png) [@Juggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Juggler)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-my-hjortronsylt/492755/19 "2009-04-13T15:28:48Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > 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. I made my sister get it a grocery store and send it to Qadgop. I haven’t seen it at the IKEA in Cyprus. > [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > 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. This is the way I would recommend cloudberries (not the huckleberry soda part) ---
**Author:** ![Claptree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@Claptree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claptree)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-my-hjortronsylt/492755/20 "2009-04-13T16:29:20Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoying-my-hjortronsylt/492755.md?page=2)