Have some more coffee?

After their Saturday sauna, people socialized. At this weekly get-together for far-flung neighbors, conversation would be lively among those who’d “finished” and were waiting for other bathers to come out of the sauna.

To prepare for their guests, one friend remembered baking three cakes — one white, one yellow and one chocolate — with her sister each Saturday. Other families served fresh bread, or doughnuts, or head cheese and pickles.

And always coffee.

Did you notice the coffee-drinker at left? He’s sipping from his saucer, the way people did in the country when coffee was too hot to drink. 

Nikki