Vild boar

The history of the wild boar in Sweden goes back 8000 years. After having been made extinct in the eighteen hundreds it has now re-established itself. Animals escaping from game reserves in the 70s and 80s have given the population a marked boost in the southern and middle parts of Sweden. The wild boar is a very shy animal that rarely shows itself in broad daylight. The weight of a live boar can reach up towards 250 kilos, but on the continent there are individuals of over 400 kilos. There are many exciting dishes to cook with wild boar meat. One delicacy is thin slices of smoked wild boar meat with horse-radish and “tunnbröd”
(a special kind of thin flat unleavened bread).