#lusseboller

...that nobody seems to know what the various traditional buns actually are called, and call all of them lussekatter - Lussi-cats. Which is wrong.

This is the one that is the easiest to make - and therefore also most often made - and that gets called Lussi-cat by nearly everybody even though it actually is a galt - that is, a male (uncastrated) pig.

This shape is in Italy known as occhi di santa Lucia - Saint Lucy’s eyes.

This one is the katt - the real lussekatt or Lussi-cat! As can be guessed by the shape, the dough is rolled into a sausage that’s thick in the middle and thinning towards the ends which are curled downwards and up, and then crossed and put under the thick parts so they poke out and make the cat’s ears.

Other traditional shapes are

yule-horse (in Norway this shape is known as yule-goat) gold-wagon (also called yule-cross or sun-cross) crown or lussi-crown swaddled-infant (also called boy) bridge church-gate yule-ox hair of the priest lily sowing-cake wreath

I am sure there are many more, these are only those I know of.