"Uff da!" I caught myself saying as I attempted to roll a mixture of flour, milk, margarine and mashed potatoes into paper-thin sheets. I even sound like a Norwegian, I thought to myself. Getting the ...

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 ...

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 ...

ROCHESTER — You'd think that after 20 years of helping my husband make traditional Norwegian lefse for the holidays, I'd catch on to the process. But no matter how many pounds of potatoes I peel, boil ...

Last week, a very nice lady named Meredith taught me how to make lefse. Now, if you didn’t grow up saying things like, "uff da" and "you betcha," you probably have no idea what I’m talking about. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

HOLLANDALE, Wis. — As a college student, Ross Gilbertson has all sorts of options on how he can spend his weekends. He can study chemistry or tutor math. He can play on his rugby team, the Doggs. He ...