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Mämmi

Name: Mämmi
Total time: 300 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Finland
Ingredients: 150g Rye Flour; 80g Brown sugar; 600ml Water; from 1 Orange Zest (grated); 1/2 tsp Salt; 200ml Heavy Cream; To taste Sugar

Dessert

⏱ 300 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐

A dark pudding of rye flour and malt sweetened by slow malting, then baked — essential to Finnish Easter.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Mämmi is a traditional Finnish Easter dessert made by mixing rye flour and rye malt with water, letting it sit for hours to develop sweetness, and then baking. It's black and has a distinctive flavor that divides opinion, but to Finns it's the taste that announces spring. It's eaten chilled with cream and sugar.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On Easter Sunday at a Nordic family table, cream and sugar are poured over black mämmi in a paper box as the family celebrates the coming of spring.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Rye Flour 150g
Brown sugar 80g
Water 600ml
Orange Zest (grated) from 1
Salt 1/2 tsp
Heavy Cream 200ml
Sugar To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Bring water to a boil and gradually whisk in half the rye flour.
Turn off the heat, leave in a warm place for 1 hour, add the remaining rye flour, and leave another hour.
Add the dark sugar, salt, and orange zest and cook on low, stirring, for 30 minutes.
Pour into an ovenproof dish and smooth the top.
Bake at 150°C for 2–3 hours.
Chill in the fridge and serve with cream and sugar.

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