Lefse is Beautiful

"Lefse is beautiful"...so says the lefse cloth

 



What is lefse? It is a traditional Norweigan flatbread made with potatoes. Aunt Carol has some Norweigan relatives and wanted to make lefse for them.  She also knows a few other people who like it, and somehow, ended up with orders for 9 dozen!

 



The table is ready to go. You use a pastry board and a grooved rolling pin with a cloth cover. There is also a special, thin wooden stick used to lift the dough onto the griddle.

 



 

Aunt Carol, ready to roll...She was the "cooker" of the day!

 

 

 You use a piece of dough only about the size of a golf ball...

 

to make a lefse this big! Ours were about 12 inches.  I've heard some people get them up to 14 inches. When the dough is rolled out, it is so thin you can read the writing on the cloth through it.

 



Then, you use the lefse stick and roll the dough onto the griddle.

 



 

This is what it looks like when it is almost done-just takes a couple of minutes to cook.  You roll it up, spread it with butter, and eat it.  Aunt Carol likes to sprinkle it with sugar.  I like to melt cheese on it.  One website I read said "It is an abomination to eat anything other than butter on lefse."  

Well, I guess I'll go and be abominable!  We Wisconsonites sure like our cheese!

 



 

Anvilarm! We rolled and cooked 9 dozen lefse!  (Aunt Carol declared that was about 4 dozen too many.)  It took us about 6 hours to finish it all, and boy, it was GOOD!

 

Lefse...is beautiful :)