Editing Crispbread (section)

== Origins ==
[[File:Knäckebrödsbakning. Bjurbäcken, Manskogs socken, Värmland - Nordiska Museet - NMA.0033934.jpg|thumb|Crispbread baking in [[Värmland]] (1911).]]
[[File:No-nb digibok 2015022324004 0300 1.jpg|thumb|Crispbread was often stored on long poles hanging from the roof.]]

[[Finland]] and [[Sweden]] have long traditions in crispbread consumption. The origin of the crispbread came from the earlier {{Lang|sv|spisbröd}} 'stovebread' which was a similar but thicker kind of bread. These breads were baked from at least the sixth century in central Sweden.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-05-03 |title=Tuggmotstånd - DN.SE |url=https://www.dn.se/mat-dryck/reportage/tuggmotstand/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160503231014/https://www.dn.se/mat-dryck/reportage/tuggmotstand/ |archive-date=2016-05-03  |access-date=2022-07-25 }}</ref> They were usually hung above the stove to be dried. Traditional crispbread in Sweden and western Finland is made in this tradition with the form of a round flat loaf with a hole in the middle to facilitate storage on long poles hanging near the ceiling. It may also have been a way to keep the [[rat]]s away from them.<ref>{{cite web |title=Knäckebröd |url=https://svensktuppfinnaremuseum.se/knackebrod/ |website=Svenskt Uppfinnaremuseum |access-date=4 May 2024 |language=Swedish}}</ref> Traditionally, crispbreads were baked just twice a year: following harvest and again in the spring when frozen river waters began to flow.<ref>History of Crispbread – http://www.finncrisp.com/history {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100509052724/http://www.finncrisp.com/history |date=2010-05-09 }}</ref> The slim crispbread that is common today originated in eastern [[Värmland]].<ref>Nils-Arvid Bringéus. ”Knäckebröd”. Nationalencyklopedin. Bokförlaget Bra böcker AB, Höganäs.</ref> Sweden's first industrial crispbread bakery, AU Bergmans enka, began its production in [[Stockholm]] in 1850. Rectangular {{Lang|de|Knäckebrot}} was first manufactured in [[Germany]] in 1927, and has remained popular and readily available there ever since.

Crispbread in the household is most common in Sweden (figures published in 2003); in Sweden 85 percent of households have crispbread at home, while in Germany it is 45 percent and in France 8 percent.<ref name="GP">Knäckebröd 03. ''[[Göteborgs-Posten]]'', 2003.</ref>