Flavours of Eastern Finland from the regions of Savo and Karelia
Savoury
- Smoked roach pie (savusärkipiiras)
- Rye-crust loaf filled with vendace and pork (muikkukukko)
- Smoked perch patties (savuahvenpiiranen)
- Flatbread pinwheels filled with smoked whitefish (savusiikatäytteinen rieskarulla)
- Vendace roe on a pearl barley flatbread (muikunmätiä röpörieskalla)
- Smoked lamb pie (palvilammaspiiras)
- Traditional lamb roast, served on potato flatbread (Lemin särä)
- Karelian pies and egg butter (karjalanpiirakka ja munavoi)
- Small rye-crust pasties filled with rutabaga (lanttukukkonen)
- Forest mushroom pie (metsäsienipiiras)
- Mushroom salad on a rye bread button (sienisalaattia ruisnapilla)
- A selection of cheeses from small cheesemakers in Eastern Finland, pear and sea buckthorn jam and seed crispbread
(Itäsuomalaisten pienjuustoloiden juustovalikoima, päärynä-tyrnihilloa ja siemennäkkileipää)
Sweet
- Layer cake with berries and cream (marja-kermatäytekakku)
- Ellen Svinhufvud Cake (Ellen Svinhufvud ‑kakku)
- Lingonberry cake baked with talkkuna* powder (puolukka-talkkunakakku, *mix of roasted barley, rye, oat and pea flours)
- Small quark cakes with cloudberry and raspberry (lakka- ja vadelmarahkakakkunen)
- Open wild blueberry pie with a rye crust (mustikkarättänä)
- Traditional turnover with apple filling (omenalörtsy)
- Rye gingerbread (ruispipari)
- Bilberry, lingonberry and cloudberry jellies (mustikka-, puolukka- ja lakkamarmeladeja)
- Assorted chocolates (suklaakonvehteja)
Beverages
- Organic coffee from a Finnish-owned coffee farm
- Organic tea
- Presidential Palace’s organic punch
- Organic red and white wine
- Beer from a microbrewery in Eastern Finland
- Apple juice
- Water
