lefse

[eyeguy 54]

mmmmm! we only made 24 but sure is good !

[cam7069]

potatoe or milk ,cream lefsa?

[eyeguy 54]

[leechlake]

eyeguy,

I used to watch my mom and her friend Betty make it. There isn't much better than the fresh lefse hot off the grill with some butter and sugar. Always was a disagreement about whether sugar should be used. Great looking stuff.

The Bethaney grill!!! My parents used to buy these things as wedding gifts for people. If I recall they were made by Bethaney Fellowship, which was a Christian organization of some derivation. If you don't know its a large circular electric grille. Must be about 20 inches?

[bobberineyes]

Gotta love this time of year, my folks make lots of batches the week of Thanksgiving and up til x-mas. Kinda funny though I'll bring some to work and some guys are like WTH is that.lol

[OnAFly]

My mom and a friend of hers would make lefse every winter and it was always something we looked forward to. Now, I get it from bake sales up north. The stuff you can get at the grocery store is not good.

Butter and cinnamon-sugar is the way we always did it. I've had it with homemade jams, brown sugar, white sugar and butter only. Butter and cinnamon sugar was always my favorite.

[eyeguy 54]

butter and cinnamon sugar is great. my fav was always butter and choke cherry jelly. our grill is an old bethany 16 incher. plenty big.

[cam7069]

6cups flour , 1/2tsp salt , 4 round tsp surgar , 1 round tsp baking powder , 4 cups whole milk , 1/2 cup shortning boil milk,shortning. in a bowl mix flour,surgar,baking powder,salt add milk,shortning stir together until crumbly put mixture in a towel and knead. keep mixture warm start rolling out as thin as you can. cook on lefsa griddle at 400 . this is a recipe that came from Norway on my mothers side.

[deerminator]

Mmmmm. Looks awesome. We use sugar but the "old" people refuse to do so. They just use butter. We made 48 rounds this year for a couple of holiday parties we hosted. We use the recipe below. You mix up the first six ingredients the night before to make the potato mixture. Let cool in the fridge and then the next day mix with the flour and cold water to make the dough and 24 balls. Made krumkake too. Nothing like the smell or taste of cardamom. I participated in a just for fun cooking challenge at a cooking school in the Cities recently and one if the challenges was smelling spices. I nailed the cardamom immediately and it was funny because I was the only one to get it thanks to the wife's Scandanavian heritage.

3 cups boiling water

2 teaspoons salt

1/8 cup sugar

3/4 cup (1-1/2 sticks) butter

2-1/4 cups Carnation evaporated milk

4 cups Hungry Jack potato flakes

3 cups all-purpose flour

1/3 to 1/2 cup ice cold water

[deerminator]

BTW, I like how you say you only made 24 rounds. That's a feat in itself. It's a time intensive and skilled task but well worth the effort once you eat a warm round off the griddle!

BTW II, for those who don't want to make it, I agree what you get in the grocery store is no better than eating some newspaper. But I'd highly recommend going to gotlefse with a dot and a com after it if you want to get some for the holidays next year. My in laws by from there for their supply to supplement our fresh made batches. It's the next best thing and tied somehow to House of Jacobs, which closed its doors last year and was arguably the best commercial made lefse in the state.