A Lefse Tradition!

This past weekend, my friend Erica Tangen and I met in Brainerd to learn how to make Lefse from the Lefse Queen (my mom). For those of you who don't know what lefse is, you are missing out! Lefse (pronounced Lef-suh) is a traditional Norwegian flat bread made from potatoes, flour, cream and butter (or Crisco shortening as in my moms recipe). Its like a tortilla but much thinner. It makes a nice side dish for lutefisk (yuck!) but we like to eat it as more of a desert, rolled up with butter and sugar (yum!)Here are the tools needed: A griddle, a Pastry board, a lefse stick a corrugated rolling pin with cloth sleeve and lots of flour.

Lucy (my niece) had a great time helping out, I think she made better lefse's than I did!

You have to roll the dough very thin, and it gets tricky if it sticks to the pastry board (which most of mine did) and you end up with holes in your lefse!

The dough is "rolled" onto the griddle from the pastry board using a lefse stick,

Here is Erica making her first lefse!

Later that day we decided to take on another Scandinavian treat called Rosettes. To make rosettes, you need a Rosette iron and deep fryer. When you make rosette batter you dip the iron into the batter and fry it. It makes a light crisp "cookie" and you dip it in sugar to cover the edges.

Towards the end we decided to try adding green food coloring for our Christmas tree shaped rosettes. The results were interesting.....