We can thank the lefse. On the afternoon of Christmas Eve, my dad dug out Grandma Haugen's old lefse grill. A large, round, formidable contraption, the grill was a thing of beauty, a thing of family ...

Today when area families enjoy lefse as a part of their holiday tradition, they may be using Lucia Schroeder's recipe. The Glyndon, Minn., woman has been teaching classes on how to make the ...

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 ...

Lefse may be a simple food -- its main ingredients are potatoes, cream, butter and flour -- but it's tricky and labor intensive to make. First of all you need the proper equipment, including a lefse ...

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 ...

The couple makes lefse every day, usually for about three hours a day, but it's not a chore for them. Lorraine Ellingson wears a pink apron and Odney Ellingson stands ready at the grills. They've ...

"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 ...

FOUNTAIN CITY, Wis. - Gwen Katula still remembers the lefse sessions. As the holidays neared, Gwen, her brother and her parents would spend a whole day in the kitchen. From the early morning hours to ...

Lefse is a common dish at a Midwest holiday celebration. The main ingredient is potatoes, and Bea Ojakangas says they must be Russet potatoes. She boils and then rices them before mashing them ...