Today had polka pig’s creator, Amalia Eriksson, aged 190 years.
When she was hailed with a picture of sökjätten Google’s first page, writes Jönköping-Posten.
Today, November 18, 2014, Amalia Eriksson would have turned 190 years. Amalia Eriksson is known as polka pig’s creator and the woman who put Gränna on the world map.
Amalia Eriksson was born in Jönköping in 1824 and grew up in Gränna. According to the site Polkagris.com She was single at the age of 34 and fed off then on producing confectionary for funerals, baptisms and weddings. It was also at this time she began making Polkagrisar which initially looked like “gizmos”.
On Tuesday hailed her deed on sökjätten Google homepage. Instead of the traditional logo Swedish visitors could see a woman with a classic candy cane in his hands. A Tribute to Amalia 190 anniversary.
1859 got Amalia Eriksson according Polkagris.com permission of Magistrate in Gränna that “here in the city such as resources by their own hands carry Bakery Management of coarse and fine breads and produce the so-called “Polkagrisar.”
The city’s then-mayor Carl Johan Wennberg, wrote in a letter in which he made it possible for Amalia to full time making and selling candy canes.
In 2014 manufactured polka pigs in Gränna largely in the same manner as in Amalia’s days. According Visitsmaland.se said to Amalia’s original recipe started as a remedy for the daughter Ida colds.
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