Baked apples

[pne]

I received a postcard from Finland today.

I had requested in my profile that If you can't find a postcard to send me (or even if you can but want to send something different!), write me on a piece of cardboard from a cereal box, packet of biscuits, or something like that! :), and the sender followed that suggestion by cutting out a piece of a box for vanilla sauce.

She also wrote that it's the best season now in Finland to enjoy vanilla sauce with "oven-made apples (uuniomena FIN, ugnsäpple SWE)".

I wasn't quite sure whether I had deciphered those words correctly, so I googled them to be sure. Interestingly enough, it seemed that pretty much all hits for "ugnsäpple" were on .fi domains; I wonder whether the dish is not common in Sweden or whether it's merely the Finland-Swedish term for it and that the Swedes in Sweden call it something else?

It seems to be pretty much what I know as "Bratäpfel" here in Germany, but then, I don't know of a typical English word for it (LEO suggests "baked apple; roast apple") so it's possible that it's not a dish typically eaten in England, so that might be the case in Sweden, too.

Comments

[liv]

They are called "baked apples" in England. I think it's one of those things that used to be eaten quite regularly but is now considered old-fashioned. But certainly it exists as an English dish. I do not know what they are called in Swedish Swedish; I never came across one during my stay in Sweden.

[pne]

Oh, are you back in the UK now?

[pne]

BTW, thanks for confirming the name of the dish and the fact that it is (or was) known in England.

[alsatia]

That sounded like fun so I just signed up. Do you find it hard to figure out what to write to total strangers? I've been staring at this blank postcard for at least half an hour, and even though there are things I can think of to write that she might be interested in, I keep worrying that I'll pick the wrong thing or write it stupidly.

[pne]

Do you find it hard to figure out what to write to total strangers?

Sometimes, yes.

Sometimes I just write, "Hello, NAME, greetings from Hamburg!".

Sometimes I write about myself and my family, or about the place where I live ("a big city in northern Germany, and an important port"), or about how the part of Hamburg where I live has only been a part of Hamburg for a short time, or about why I picked that particular card, or something relating to the interests they list on their profile.

Often I find something to write about, and if I write the same thing on more than one card, it's unlikely that the recipients will compare notes and complain about my lack of creativity :)

You might also find this list of translations of Postcrossing phrases fun if you're writing to someone in another country.

I've also found that the text on the postcards I receive varies widely -- not only the length, but also the content/topics.