"Christmas smorgasbord from Finland, "Joulupöytä", (translated "Yule table"), a traditional display of Christmas food) served at Christmas in Finland, similar to the Swedish smörgåsbord, including:
• Christmas ham with mustard (almost every family has one for Christmas)
• turkey (kalkkuna)
• freshly salted salmon (gravlax graavilohi)
• pickled herring in various forms (tomato, mustard, matjes or onion sauces)
• lutefisk and white sauce
• whitefish and pikeperch
• liver casserole
• potato casserole (sweetened or not, depending on preference)
• boiled potatoes
• carrot casserole
• rutabaga casserole (lanttulaatikko)
• rosolli (salad from boiled beetroots, carrots, potatoes, apples and pickled cucumber. If served with herring, it becomes herring-salad, sillisalaatti)
• various sauces
• assortment of cheese, most commonly (leipäjuusto) and Aura (aura-juusto)
• Christmas bread, usually sweet bread (Joululimppu)
Other meat dishes could be:
• Karelian hot pot, traditional meat stew originating from the region of Karelia (Karjalanpaisti)
• reindeer (in northern Finland) (poro)
• cold smoked salmon (kylmäsavulohi)
Desserts:
• Karelian pasties (a dessert, really?)(Karjalanpiirakka)
• rice pudding or rice porridge topped with cinnamon, sugar and cold milk or with mixed fruit soup (riisipuuro)
• gingerbread, sometimes in the form of a gingerbread house or gingerbread man (piparkakut)
• chocolate (given as presents, eaten in-between meals, called suklaa)
• prune jam pastries (Joulutortut)[11]
• mixed fruit soup or prune soup (sekahedelmäkiisseli, luumukiisseli)
Drinks:
• glogg or mulled wine (glögi)
• Christmas beer (Jouluolut)
• home beer (non-alcoholic beer-like drink) (kotikalja)
• red wine (punaviini)
• Marski's tipple (akvavit, vermouth and gin) (Marskin ryyppy)
• milk (maito)
• sour milk (often drunk by older people)
• Coca Cola (often drunk by children)
• coffee (kahvi)
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