This is as good a place as any to file this.
I ran across it in my cabin, and considering my filing system I'll be lucky ever to see it again, so here it is:
Randi Liabråtens Lefse
8 cups mashed potatoes, cold
1/2 cup whipping cream
1/2 cup soft butter
4 cups flour
additional flour for rolling
In a large bowl, mix potatoes, cream, butter, salt and enough flour to make a velvety dough.
Form into balls about the size of golf balls. Add more flour if the balls feel too sticky. Roll out on a generously floured surface.
Transfer to a lefse grill or large pancake griddle with a lefse stick or long spatula. Grill until light brown spots appear on the underside. Turn with a lefse stick and grill the other side.
Lay lefse on a cloth-covered table. Cool before stacking.
Makes about 50 lefse.
The reciple was in a St. Paul (MN) Pioneer Press clipping from Feb. 22, 2006, about a group of Shoreview, MN, women that had been gathering annually for a lefse-baking party for about 10 years.
And speaking of lefse, if you're back in Oslo & happen to find yourself at the
Norwegian Museum of Cultural History (Norske Folkemuseum), look for the hut with smoke coming out of the chimney. Inside they're cooking lefse to die for on an open-hearth stove.
Lefse Recipe
