Buttermilk. Sour or fermented milk.

Buttermilk cake flavoured with cinnamon, cloves, ginger and cardamom.

Rye bread made with buttermilk and the addition of caraway seeds, syrup, fennel seeds and orange peel.

Pie. Pastry or turnover.

Pie or tart

Instant coffee

A simplified way of making Danish pastry dough.

Alose. Allis shad. A freshwater shad, from a family of white, migratory fish. The shad is a bony, tasty, oily fish similar to herring, which travels up rivers in spring and is found in deep lakes. In France it is found in the Gironde where it is often grilled over vine shoots or stuffed with sorrel, and in the Loire, where it may be stuffed with beurre blanc. The roe is a great delicacy and shad is also used raw in sushi. Members of the family include Allis shad (Alosa alosa) and the smaller twaite shad or gizzard shad (Alosa fallax).

Little. Small.

"Little Christmas." Advent. At Advent in Finland candles are lit and parties are held. This is the period leading up to Christmas when the larder is stocked with food for the festive season.