Then there are the ingredients. Some cooks like to use red potatoes, others prefer white. The Sons of Norway lefse recipe specifies Cass Clay butter because "cheaper" butter is too watery. White flour ...

You do whatever's necessary to keep the in-laws happy during the holidays. My mother's way of showing affection to her visiting sons-in-law is to prepare their favorite foods. But, as no amount of ...

Lefse. It's a paper-thin flatbread, made from potatoes and cooked on a griddle, flipped with a long, narrow wooden stick, and eaten slathered with butter, sugar and sometimes cinnamon. If you're of ...

Lefse. It’s a paper-thin flatbread, made from potatoes and cooked on a griddle, flipped with a long, narrow wooden stick, and eaten slathered with butter, sugar and sometimes cinnamon. If you’re of ...

If Minnesota had a state food, it would be lefse. Granted, we already have a state mushroom (the morel), and even a state muffin (blueberry), but what we lack is just a general food item. Lefse should ...

I’m a sixth-generation lefse maker. In the 1880s, my great-great-grandmother, Kari Brandum, brought our family lefse recipe with her from the Lillehammer region of Norway when she immigrated to ...

Are you puzzled by recipes from relatives and church cookbooks that lack necessary information? My dad’s theory about recipes with missing data is that Aunt Martha wants to be remembered as the best ...

Round balls of dough ready on plates. Irons heated. Round wooden boards lined up and down the kitchen counter. Sons of Norway lefse makers were ready to roll for the holidays a few weeks before their ...

It was a modest undertaking by a few men for a fundraiser that soon ballooned into enough ingredients to produce 600 pieces of lefse. Recently, the St. Andrew's Episcopal Church Men's Group sold a ...

It looks like a flour tortilla. It rolls like a flour tortilla. It folds like a flour tortilla. But it’s lefse (pronounced LEF-sah), a Norwegian flatbread often made with mashed potatoes. “When I ...

MaryBeth Davis fills her holidays with family, friends and lots of lefse. Davis, of Cutten, has been eating the traditional soft, thin Norwegian flatbread since she was a child. “Lefse is probably one ...