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Hyvää joulua 2021 KC!
Cool. I'm glad you like it.
Every home, different recipe, so it's ok to replace stuff with what you have. For example some recipes ask for butter instead of lard, or margarine, or vegetable oil. The walnut/poppy seed filling can be mixed with jam, ground apple, honey, sugar... Some people add raisins, some leave that out (in my xp people tend to have strong feelings about raisins, positive or negative). Some uses cherries instead. I heard about chestnut, chocolate, apple-cinnamon, and even coconut fillings too. But the traditional is the walnut and poppy seed fillings.
We also make it in Slovenia, here it's called potica. Mum made two: one with walnuts and raisins, and one with poppy seeds. And yes we use butter rather than lard in those.
One filling that is my favourite though is a savoury one of onion and pork rinds (or fatty bacon chunks) where of course you do use lard (since filling is pork fat heavy anyway).
Raisins need to be soaked in rum overnight btw (for anyone reading this who might try but this isn't a local recipe for them).