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| | About Sweden: Modern Christmas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | Christmas in Sweden starts with Advent, which is the await for the arrival of Jesus. |
 | | Traditional dishes are: rice pudding, ham, meatballs, little sausages, stockfish (lye-fish), pickled herring, various kinds of cheese and rye bread flavoured with brewer's wort (vörtbröd) and other delicacies. |
 | | On Christmas Eve, the ham is dried, painted with a coating of egg and mustard, sprinkled with bread crums and baked at a high temperature for a short time. |
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