Around the world in a number of stews

Preparation: 15 mins Cook time: 1.5 hours Serves: 4-6 adults Serve with: Pickled beetroot and steamed potatoes.  Olivier's: ★★★ Me: ★★ (not disgusting, but edible) I felt a bit bad, having abandoned Finland so many months ago, so thought I could at least try another Scandinavian country.  Unfortunately Sweden's stew is not much of an improvement on Finland's meat and onion broth, BUT, it did have carrots, bringing it closer to the kind of stew my nan (English) used to make. So, not amazing, but, edible.  Having checked a few recipes, most of them had a combo of  meat, carrots, onions, all spice, water, peppercorns and bay leaves.  One  had wine AND garlic in it, making it, on the whole, sound a bit too flavoursome for a traditional rendition of this meal, bringing about some comments to this effect at the end of the recipe: "As a swede, I disagree with adding wine and garlic to kalops. Otherwise it’s as we normally do it. " a