Making lefse

When you are not sure what you are doing it is time to do research. Since none of us had made lefse before we invited over a consultant who used to host a Norwegian cooking show on KNUT-FM at St. Ole's College in her student days. In the picture above she is boning up using a Norwegian cookbook (written in the old language).

TWWT AND FRIENDS MAKE LEFSE
Making lefse can be another way to enrich your life. Invitee some friends over and it can be even more fun. To start you need skinned and boiled potatoes. Mash them and rice them to strain all the bugs out.

To mix the ingredients you first find a dirty sock and put it over a hollow plastic rolling pin filled with frozen acquvit.




When you get the lefse rolled out you then take a second rolling pin with grooves in it and then roll the lefse one more time. The reason for this is lost in ancient Norwegian legends but we have heard if you don't roll the lefse a 2nd time it will turn into a tortilla.




Next you dip two sticks into a glass of beer (we used Canadian beer thinking Canada was as far north as Nowway but the beer gave the lefse a funny taste). Using the sticks you roll up the lefse dough and move it to a lefse griddle. We inherited the griddle in the picture and it was so old we could not find anything about wattage on it. We warmed the kitchen with the heat from the electric cord. (notice genuine Viking shirt in the pic).

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