Making Pavlova (and silly jokes) in Norrköping, Sweden
Channel: Angela Brett
Date: 10/08/2019

“There is nothing wrong with making horrific jokes, as long as you’re also making cake.” 

Back in May 2012, I met my friends Lena, Hugo, and Pierpaolo in Norrköping, Sweden. Shortly before Pierpaolo arrived, we made a traditional Swedish dessert, the pancake cake (Pannkakstårta, from the book Pannkakstårtan [in which the ’n’ at the end is the definite article] by Sven Nordqvist) and I edited my video of that fairly promptly and relatively succinctly: https://youtu.be/T5b6Kxu4el0

The next day, we made a traditional New Zealand dessert, the Pavlova, according to “Aunt Daisy’s” recipe, which I’d previously made a video for: https://youtu.be/QSpPpHqQvsI and served it to Lena’s maternal grandmother (mormor, in Swedish.)

It took me much longer to get around to editing the footage of that, and the video ended up much longer too, showing that I’ve probably got worse at video editing in the intervening seven years. But my friends were making a lot of jokes, and Hugo educated us on the Russian civil war, so I left that in. Most of you are probably only here for my JoCo content, so I can make this as long as I want to indulge my friends, and you can skip it.

I started adding closed captions to this but got tired after about six minutes, before even getting to the part where there's eggbeaters making the speech hard to hear. It's time-consuming work! If you'd like to improve the captions, community captioning is turned on and apparently going to http://www.youtube.com/timedtext_cs_panel?c=UCubJl5lNlb5WSMcI-Y4PNow&tab=2 will let you do it.