NORWAY: Cloudberry cream

Cloudberry cream (Multekrem)

 

Ingredients

3 dl whipping cream
4 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
150g cloudberries (or 3-5 tablespoons cloudberry jam)  

 Instructions
1 Whip the cream and sugar, add vanilla extract.

2 Fold in the cloudberries or the cloudberry jam.

3 Pour into a nice bowl and decorate with cloudberries.

 
4 May be served with Krumkaker or put into dish-shaped krumkaker

What are cloudberries?

Cloudberries (multer in Norwegian) are picked in late summer. They grow wild at a high altitude (up in the mountains on wet, boggy areas) and cannot be cultivated.

Cloudberry bushes produce delicious orange berries that are smaller than blackberries and raspberries. Red before ripening, the fruit turns soft and orange at maturity.

If they live near to where they grow, Norwegians pick them from the end of July through the beginning of August. They are kept frozen or can be made into jam.

Cloudberry cream is served traditionally for dessert at Christmas.

   Cloudberries            on the plant                Picked cloudberries                            Cloudberry cream                                                                                                                with krumkaker

.  Read more about cloudberries here: http://mylittlenorway.com/2011/07/guide-to-cloudberries/