Editing Cabbage roll (section)

====Sweden and Finland====
[[File:Kåldolmar.jpg|thumb|Kåldolmar]]
[[File:Wirsingroulade.jpg|thumb|German ''Wirsingrouladen'' made using [[savoy cabbage]] leaves]]
''Kåldolmar'' ("cabbage dolma") are [[Swedish cuisine|Swedish]] cabbage rolls filled with [[rice]] and minced meat (most often [[pork]]). They are traditionally eaten with boiled or mashed [[potato]]es, [[gravy]], and [[lingonberry jam]]. In [[Finland]] the same dish is known as ''kaalikääryle'' (plural ''kaalikääryleet'').

In 1709, after losing the [[Battle of Poltava]], the wounded [[Charles XII of Sweden]] and the remnants of his army escaped with their [[Cossacks|Cossack]] allies to the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] town of [[Bender, Moldova|Bender]], in present-day [[Moldavia]], where they were granted refuge by [[Sultan]] [[Ahmed III]]. Charles XII spent more than five years in the Ottoman Empire, trying to convince the Sultan to help him defeat the Russians. When he finally returned to Sweden in 1715, he was followed by his Ottoman creditors and their cooks. The creditors remained in Sweden at least until 1732; it is generally believed that Ottoman style dolma were introduced into Swedish cooking during this period.

As indicated by the name, Swedish ''kåldolmar'' are generally considered a variety of the [[dolma]]. Swedish is the only European language to use the Turkish term dolma ("filled") to denote cabbage rolls.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2013-11-30|title=Krigarkonungen och kåldolmarna|language=sv|work=Svenska Dagbladet|url=https://www.svd.se/krigarkonungen-och-kaldolmarna|access-date=2020-07-25|issn=1101-2412}}</ref>

The earliest known Swedish recipe for "Dolma" is in the 1765 edition of the famous [[cookbook]] of [[Cajsa Warg]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=kåldolmar - Uppslagsverk - NE.se|url=https://www.ne.se/uppslagsverk/encyklopedi/l%C3%A5ng/k%C3%A5ldolmar|access-date=2020-07-25|website=www.ne.se}}</ref> Warg instructed her readers to prepare the rolls using vine leaves, lamb, rice, and lemon juice. Toward the end of the recipe, however, Warg suggested that those who could not afford vine leaves could use preboiled cabbage leaves in their place.<ref name="Karl XII och kåldolmarna">{{Cite news|date=2013-11-28|title=Karl XII och kåldolmarna|language=sv|work=Sveriges Radio|url=https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/5717751|access-date=2020-07-25}}</ref> Nowadays, frozen ''kåldolmar'', cooked with preboiled cabbage leaves, are sold in most major food stores in Sweden.

To cherish early modern cultural interchange between Sweden and the Orient, the Cabbage Dolma Day (Kåldolmens dag) is celebrated on November 30, the day [[Charles XII of Sweden|Charles XII]] was killed during a military campaign in Norway. The celebrations were instated in 2010 by a group known as the Friends of the Cabbage Dolma (Kåldolmens vänner). In a series of media appearances, historian [[Petter Hellström]] explained that the group wanted to make November 30 a day to remember and ponder the multifaceted roots of Sweden's cultural heritage,<ref name="Karl XII och kåldolmarna"/> apparently in contrast to the same day's long history as the unofficial marching day of Swedish [[fascism]] and [[Far-right politics|right wing extremism]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Sjöström|first=Oskar|date=2018-11-30|title=Så blev Karl XII extremhögerns kelgris|language=sv|work=Svenska Dagbladet|url=https://www.svd.se/sa-blev-karl-xii-extremhogerns-kelgris|access-date=2020-07-25|issn=1101-2412}}</ref> Starting in 2013, the Cabbage Dolma Day was hosted by the [[Swedish History Museum]] in [[Stockholm]], the country's foremost historical museum.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2013-11-28|title=I stället för rasism – kåldolmar|url=https://www.dn.se/arkiv/stockholm/i-stallet-for-rasism-kaldolmar/|access-date=2020-07-25|website=[[Dagens Nyheter]]|language=sv}}</ref> The celebrations have also been supported by a number of important civil society organizations over the years, notably the [[Church of Sweden]] and the Federation of Local History and Folk Culture (Sveriges hembygdsförbund).