Mix, Add To Metal Pot, Then Bury In Hot Lava Sand: How To Bake Bread In Iceland
Traditional Icelandic lava bread is a sweet rye loaf baked in metal pots that are buried in volcanic sand.
The Blue Lagoon, a quick drive from Reykjavik’s international airport, is a tourist mecca. The man-made pools that draw water from the nearby geothermal plant are open for visitors up to 17 hours a day at the peak of summer. Even in the winter they’re filled long before the sun rises.
But 90 minutes northeast of the city, in a largely agricultural region surrounded by mountains and volcanoes, there’s another set of geothermal baths and saunas.
“There’s no plumbing, no switch on or off … it’s just a hot spring,” says Siggi Hilmarsson, the managing director of.
