Siskonmakkara is a mild, Finnish fresh sausage made of pork

Pork

Pork is the culinary name for meat from the domestic pig , which is eaten in many countries. It is one of the most commonly consumed meats worldwide, with evidence of pig husbandry dating back to 5000 BC....

, cooked before serving. The meat is soft and smooth-textured and usually squeezed from its casing when cooking. The most common dish using this sausage is siskonmakkara soup (siskonmakkarakeitto) in which they are cooked in, and simultaneously flavours, the soup stock. The sausage can also be used for a stroganoff

Beef Stroganoff

Beef Stroganoff or Beef Stroganov is a Russian dish of sautéed pieces of beef served in a sauce with smetana or sour cream...

 or macaroni casserole

Macaroni casserole

Macaroni casserole is a baked macaroni dish. It is especially known as staple in northern European home cooking. It is a dish of cooked macaroni and a mixture of egg and milk with additional ingredients like meats, vegetables or fish...

 in place of mince meat. It does not keep well and should be used on the day it is bought.

The word siskonmakkara is a partial loan translation from the Swedish

Swedish language

Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...

 compound word siskonkorv (korv meaning “sausage”) whose siskon part had originally been susiskon, derived from German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

 Saucischen and French

French language

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 saucisse, both meaning "small sausage". The word siskon is a homonym

Homonym

In linguistics, a homonym is, in the strict sense, one of a group of words that often but not necessarily share the same spelling and the same pronunciation but have different meanings...

of the genetive form of the word sisko meaning "sister", as the word siskonmakkara appears to mean “sister’s sausage”.