BREADS.... Lefsa Class...

[Tim Horton]

The other day I went to the ..Lefsa Class.. at the local senior center..

It was put on by the retired nurse that also does senior foot care.. Of course I ask if she washed her hands first ?? Got a punch on the shoulder for that wise crack..

I took a jar of Ikea store Lingonberry jam to share.. Was fun as I had not had lefsa for quite a number of years now.. It is easy to make, but kind of time consuming, and finicky in how delicate it is to roll and handle before it is baked.. My skills were quite a bit too rough to start out.. I was eventually successful in making a plate full.. Kind of brought back memories as a kid when at grandpa Gilbert and grandma Hattie place..

Got to try several homemade fruit jams and jellies, homemade butter, apple butter and cinnamon sugar sprinkle.. Of course there was a big pot of .... Swedish Diesel Fuel... (strong coffee) to go with all this..

History of Lefsa supposedly came about during the WW1 era as a way to stretch ingredients.. I can't help but think we all are going to have to learn a few techniques like this to ..stretch.. resources as the world seems more unsettled.. Enjoy

Summerfest Lefsa
10lb russet potatoes
1 cup heavy whipping cream
1 cup butter
2 Table spoons salt
6 cup flour

Peel, cook, run potatoes through a ricer
Add butter, cream, salt, mix well.. Refrigerate overnight in a covered bowl..
Mix in flour and roll into balls a bit bigger than an ice cream scoop size..
CAREFULLY Roll thin and fry on a lefsa grill..

Makes about 75 rounds about 8" diameter..

 

[Weedygarden]

Daughter grew up with making lefse with her grandma when she went to North Dakota at Christmas time. We can buy it in some stores. Since we found out that daughter has celiac, no need to even look for it.

A number of years ago I bought her a lefse iron and all the gear to make lefse. Of course she makes hers gluten free.

I also found a krumkake iron for her at a church rummage sale. Later I found another krumkake iron at a thrift store in Tucson.

 

[Pearl]

What a great senior center class!!

 

[Cabin Fever]

We go to a winter festival in Knife River, MN called "Julebyen." One of the vendors serves, "Nordic fish tacos." It's a deep-fried herring filet, smeared with lingonberry tarter sauce, and wrapped in lefse. It's delicious.
Julebyen Christmas Village

 

[Weedygarden]

The other day I went to the ..Lefsa Class.. at the local senior center..

It was put on by the retired nurse that also does senior foot care.. Of course I ask if she washed her hands first ?? Got a punch on the shoulder for that wise crack..

I took a jar of Ikea store Lingonberry jam to share.. Was fun as I had not had lefsa for quite a number of years now.. It is easy to make, but kind of time consuming, and finicky in how delicate it is to roll and handle before it is baked.. My skills were quite a bit too rough to start out.. I was eventually successful in making a plate full.. Kind of brought back memories as a kid when at grandpa Gilbert and grandma Hattie place..

Got to try several homemade fruit jams and jellies, homemade butter, apple butter and cinnamon sugar sprinkle.. Of course there was a big pot of .... Swedish Diesel Fuel... (strong coffee) to go with all this..

History of Lefsa supposedly came about during the WW1 era as a way to stretch ingredients.. I can't help but think we all are going to have to learn a few techniques like this to ..stretch.. resources as the world seems more unsettled.. Enjoy

Summerfest Lefsa
10lb russet potatoes
1 cup heavy whipping cream
1 cup butter
2 Table spoons salt
6 cup flour

Peel, cook, run potatoes through a ricer
Add butter, cream, salt, mix well.. Refrigerate overnight in a covered bowl..
Mix in flour and roll into balls a bit bigger than an ice cream scoop size..
CAREFULLY Roll thin and fry on a lefsa grill..

Makes about 75 rounds about 8" diameter..

And no lutefisk?

 

[viking]

I still miss my grandmothers Lefsa treats, buttered and covered with cinnamon and sugar, lutefisk done right tastes pretty good, I figure that as a kid I liked a lot of those Norwegian foods, they weren't all that bad to begin with, even if they sound strange. My dad always had trouble making lutefisk, it always ended up being liquid fish, he also had a problem getting all the salt out of salt black cod, but that's another story.

 

[Spikedriver]

And no lutefisk?

You need to wash your hands, just for typing that dirty word!

 

[Spikedriver]

The other day I went to the ..Lefsa Class.. at the local senior center..

It was put on by the retired nurse that also does senior foot care.. Of course I ask if she washed her hands first ?? Got a punch on the shoulder for that wise crack..

I took a jar of Ikea store Lingonberry jam to share.. Was fun as I had not had lefsa for quite a number of years now.. It is easy to make, but kind of time consuming, and finicky in how delicate it is to roll and handle before it is baked.. My skills were quite a bit too rough to start out.. I was eventually successful in making a plate full.. Kind of brought back memories as a kid when at grandpa Gilbert and grandma Hattie place..

Got to try several homemade fruit jams and jellies, homemade butter, apple butter and cinnamon sugar sprinkle.. Of course there was a big pot of .... Swedish Diesel Fuel... (strong coffee) to go with all this..

History of Lefsa supposedly came about during the WW1 era as a way to stretch ingredients.. I can't help but think we all are going to have to learn a few techniques like this to ..stretch.. resources as the world seems more unsettled.. Enjoy

Summerfest Lefsa
10lb russet potatoes
1 cup heavy whipping cream
1 cup butter
2 Table spoons salt
6 cup flour

Peel, cook, run potatoes through a ricer
Add butter, cream, salt, mix well.. Refrigerate overnight in a covered bowl..
Mix in flour and roll into balls a bit bigger than an ice cream scoop size..
CAREFULLY Roll thin and fry on a lefsa grill..

Makes about 75 rounds about 8" diameter..

I haven't had lefse for years, but it was a holiday staple in my family when I was a kid. My grandma and her sisters all made it with butter and brown sugar. My grandma's grandma brought the recipe over with her from Norway in the 1860s, along with the family kringla recipe. My generation is the last to embrace our Norwegian heritage though. The younger ones still make kringla but it's not the same as mom's...

 

[Weedygarden]

You need to wash your hands, just for typing that dirty word!

My late father-in-law would not allow it in the house! LOL! Either you love it, or not!

I worked as a hostess/cashier in a steak house and part of my duties involved maintaining the salad bar. Not lutefisk, but pickled herring was one of the items on the salad bar. Some times it would be there for a few days, other times, it would all be gone in one evening. Now I wonder if someone would come in and put it in a container and take it home.

 

[Spikedriver]

My late father-in-law would not allow it in the house! LOL! Either you love it, or not!

I worked as a hostess/cashier in a steak house and part of my duties involved maintaining the salad bar. Not lutefisk, but pickled herring was one of the items on the salad bar. Some times it would be there for a few days, other times, it would all be gone in one evening. Now I wonder if someone would come in and put it in a container and take it home.

I wouldn't take pickled herring home, but my Pops would take a truckload of it. He loves the stuff. But then again he likes lutefisk too, so it's obvious that he doesn't know anything about good food. Lutefisk smells like a nursing home bathroom and it tastes worse than it smells...

 

[Jen]

The other day I went to the ..Lefsa Class.. at the local senior center..

It was put on by the retired nurse that also does senior foot care.. Of course I ask if she washed her hands first ?? Got a punch on the shoulder for that wise crack..

I took a jar of Ikea store Lingonberry jam to share.. Was fun as I had not had lefsa for quite a number of years now.. It is easy to make, but kind of time consuming, and finicky in how delicate it is to roll and handle before it is baked.. My skills were quite a bit too rough to start out.. I was eventually successful in making a plate full.. Kind of brought back memories as a kid when at grandpa Gilbert and grandma Hattie place..

Got to try several homemade fruit jams and jellies, homemade butter, apple butter and cinnamon sugar sprinkle.. Of course there was a big pot of .... Swedish Diesel Fuel... (strong coffee) to go with all this..

History of Lefsa supposedly came about during the WW1 era as a way to stretch ingredients.. I can't help but think we all are going to have to learn a few techniques like this to ..stretch.. resources as the world seems more unsettled.. Enjoy

Summerfest Lefsa
10lb russet potatoes
1 cup heavy whipping cream
1 cup butter
2 Table spoons salt
6 cup flour

Peel, cook, run potatoes through a ricer
Add butter, cream, salt, mix well.. Refrigerate overnight in a covered bowl..
Mix in flour and roll into balls a bit bigger than an ice cream scoop size..
CAREFULLY Roll thin and fry on a lefsa grill..

Makes about 75 rounds about 8" diameter..

Lefsa. Norwegian tortillas.

My husband is Swedish/ Norwegian and we lived a while in Poulsbo, WA, "Little Norway". So our kids had plenty of lefsa while they were growing up and they love it.

I've never made it, but thanks to this recipe now I can. Of course I don't own a lefsa grill. I have never seen lefsa in the grocery stores here in OKlahoma.

 

[Weedygarden]

I wouldn't take pickled herring home, but my Pops would take a truckload of it. He loves the stuff. But then again he likes lutefisk too, so it's obvious that he doesn't know anything about good food. Lutefisk smells like a nursing home bathroom and it tastes worse than it smells...

When I was working as a meat wrapper, we would get it in 50 pound boxloads. After it was put out in the display, sometimes someone would come in and buy almost all of it. Love it, or not! In North Dakota, churches, particularly Lutheran churches have lutefisk and Swedish meatball dinners for fundraisers. I'm sure there is lefse there as well, but probably not krumkake because it is so fragile.

The Scandinavians have their ethnic foods, and Bohemians love their potato dumplings, kraut and either pork or duck, something greasy to put on top of the dumplings and kraut.

 

[Cabin Fever]

Speaking of lutefisk...

And, my Texan wife's thoughts on Lutefisk:

 

[Spikedriver]

Lutefisk is lye soaked in cod. It isn't food, don't put it in your mouth!

 

[Cabin Fever]

Lutefisk is lye soaked in cod. It isn't food, don't put it in your mouth!

Actually, it is cod soaked in lye.

 

[Spikedriver]

I wrote what I wrote on purpose! Lol

 

[Cabin Fever]

I look at it this way. Cod is an oily fish. When you mix oil (or fat) and lye, what do you get? Every homesteader should know the answer to this question.

 

[Spikedriver]

I look at it this way. Cod is an oily fish. When you mix oil (or fat) and lye, what do you get? Every homesteader should know the answer to this question.

Now you're on to something that can be useful. Lye soap sucks, but it's better than nothing. However I think I'd rather eat the soap than eat lutefisk!

 

[Weedygarden]

I wouldn't take pickled herring home, but my Pops would take a truckload of it. He loves the stuff. But then again he likes lutefisk too, so it's obvious that he doesn't know anything about good food. Lutefisk smells like a nursing home bathroom and it tastes worse than it smells...

It is the smell that FIL didn't want stinking up his house. I have never been in the same place where it was cooked, just wrapped that gelatinous stuff.

 

[Weedygarden]

Speaking of lutefisk...

And, my Texan wife's thoughts on Lutefisk:

Except lefse is not the same as a tortilla! Lefse, like many Scandinavian delights is smeared with butter and then sprinkled with sugar, rolled up and eaten.

 

[Spikedriver]

It is the smell that FIL didn't want stinking up his house. I have never been in the same place where it was cooked, just wrapped that gelatinous stuff.

I have a distant relative that wrote a poem about lutefisk. He was a cab driver in Colorado and was murdered in his cab. His mother wrote a book about the grieving process and included the poem. I've got the book somewhere at home. I'll see if I can find it and post the poem here. I thought it was hilarious.

 

[Spikedriver]

Except lefse is not the same as a tortilla! Lefse, like many Scandinavian delights is smeared with butter and then sprinkled with sugar, rolled up and eaten.

Brown sugar or white sugar? My family always uses brown sugar, but it seems that most use white sugar. And it's not sprinkled, more like generously covered and then covered again, and rolled up into a little tube of heaven!

 

[Weedygarden]

Brown sugar or white sugar? My family always uses brown sugar, but it seems that most use white sugar. And it's not sprinkled, more like generously covered and then covered again, and rolled up into a little tube of heaven!

My only experience is with white sugar, but I do know that people use brown sugar.

My in-laws both were smokers, heavy smokers. My daughter is very adverse to the smell of cigarette smoke. So was her dad. When she would come home from North Dakota after her Christmas where she and her dad spent most of their time at Grandma and Grandpa's house, she would bring home lefse and krumkake. The problem she had was the smell of cigarette smoke permeated them both, as well as her clothing. Her grandma would always want to make sure that all of her clothes were washed before she came home, but daughter told her that we were going to wash all of her clothes when she got home anyway, due to the cigarette smoke.

 

[ClemKadiddlehopper]

Lefsa. ............I never made it, but thanks to this recipe now I can. Of course I don't own a lefsa grill. I have never seen lefsa in the grocery stores here in OKlahoma.

You don't need a lefse grill. Any large frying pan will work. The lower the sides the easier to roll it off the stick. A cheap paella pan works well. We used to make it directly on the wood burning cook stove.

I grow bintji potatoes for making lefse. Boiling waxy potatoes aren't suitable.

 

[Weedygarden]

I have a distant relative that wrote a poem about lutefisk. He was a cab driver in Colorado and was murdered in his cab. His mother wrote a book about the grieving process and included the poem. I've got the book somewhere at home. I'll see if I can find it and post the poem here. I thought it was hilarious.

I want to read this book and that poem!