Easter Pasha

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Member since 09 February 2010

sratellMember09 February 2010 03:05:00

I am an american living in the states who has a great passion for cooking AND eating food! I have Scandinavian ancestry and try to serve up some traditional dishes from Finland, Sweden and Norway at various holidays. I love collecting various culinary utensils from all over the world and enjoy creating food dishes from all cultures and regions.

My latest obsession is to find a wooden Pasha mold to create that Karelian dessert for our Easter celebration this year. However, I have run into a wall trying to find a real wooden mold. My search has found only one plastic mold on the entire internet.

I stumbled onto this blog/forum and thought I may find someone with a shared interest of food that is living in Finland in hopes they could possibly direct me to a website, or the address to a business, that caters to these types of items.

Please, email me back with any info you may have. If I had the resources to travel there, I would have already been there and found one myself!

thanks in advance

sratell

citizen1 ViP

Member since 06 December 2009

citizen1ViP23 February 2010 05:14:48

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Hi Sratell!

You can buy a wooden pasha mold at the New Valamo Monastery.

Their contact details:
TEL +358 17 5701501
FAX +358 17 5701510

mail address:
Valamon luostari
Tuohus
Valamontie 42
79850 UUSI-VALAMO
Finland

sratell Member

Member since 09 February 2010

sratellMember24 February 2010 21:09:52

Thanks for the posting - much appreciated!

Tanja Member

Member since 17 November 2009

TanjaMember02 March 2010 22:39:36

Hi Stratell,
I'm glad you got the answer for your question.

For the future questions you can contact Food Sightseeing Helsinki - we make Finnish gastronomy tour s and we are glad to help in problems like this.
e-mail foodsightseeing@nousujohde.fi

br, Tanja

mcmeg12 Member

Member since 03 February 2010

mcmeg12Member17 March 2010 06:49:52

I am also an American, but now I'm living in Helsinki and it's allowed me to expand my cooking interests. I haven't seen pasha molds too ofen, although I have been to Valamo monastary, but it was long before my also cooking obsession. I often go to flea markets on the weekends and look around for things like this, but have only been lucky enough to find madelein and cannoli molds, still looking for good moon-cake molds.

If you like Scandinavian cooking, I would recommend also this website:
http://www.dlc.fi/~marianna/gourmet/recipe.htm
I also have a blog:
http://ethnicvegworld.blogspot.com/

Feel free to follow also my ethnic cooking adventures. I also plan to make pasha for easter, but will probably improvise with the mold. Maybe we can exchange notes on how it goes afterwards. Can you find good quark where you are?

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