Now you tell me!
Posted on 02/07/2006 2:20:18 PM PST by FairOpinion
That reminds me - I have to order more from Granrud's Lefse Shack in Montana. They just don't know how to make it down here in Colorado. LOL
Aw gee, if I HAVE to. (more ribs for ME!) LOL I can see that it is probably an "art", so that is good advice. What kind of wood chips do you use?
Currently using hickory, mesquite was not good. Wouldn't mind getting some apple.
I've never ordered lefse before, but years ago I did buy one of the packs in a grocery store. It was horrible! I come from a long line of Norwegians and was taught to make lefse when I was a little girl. Our family met a man from Norway years ago who told us that lefse was becoming a lost art in Norway due to the older women making the lefse, and the young ones weren't interested in learning how to make it.
My grandparents were from Norway and grandma made lefse on the old woodstove years ago.
I bet if they ran a similar study testing sugar, they would find a definite connection with declining health and people consuming tons of sugar/
I have some hickory, but wondered if you had used apple before. I bet it'd be good too.
Now you tell me!
I had a place with some apple trees years ago. I used the prunings for smoking salmon, nice flavor, subtle - not overpowering.
"heavy and sour" describes perfectly the storebought stuff I had tried years ago. Yuck, is right!
It's so sad that lefse-making has become a dying art. Making lefse takes a bit of practice, but it is sure worth the effort. I have what I call a "foolproof" recipe that came with my Heritage Lefse Plate. Instead of going through the process of cooking and ricing, or mashing the potatoes, I use Idahoan instant potatoes in the recipe and it makes delicious lefse.
Maybe someday you could try making it yourself and amaze your Norwegian relatives! ;)
I miss apple trees. I've heard that someone in Fairbanks has succeeded in growing apples. I'll believe it when I see it. LOL Yes, apple is awesome for smoking salmon. Maybe in one of my test batches (ribs), I'll try using apple instead.
Maybe I'll dig out the recipes I got in my nursing school days in ND. One of them used instant mashed potatoes if I remember correctly. Of course, I don't have an electric lefse griddle or wooden turner but the old cast iron skillet might work.
What do you do on Sunday?? :)
Yum, smoked salmon...a staple in my diet....
Fat is not the universal scourge it is made out to be. EVERY diet needs an absolute minimum of certain combinations of fat.
Trans-fats, created by the hydrogenation of unsaturated oils, does not normally exist in nature, and is utilized only poorly by the body. Certain other triglycerides, as found in butter, consist of relatively short-chain esters, including propionic, butyric, capric and capriolic radicals, and are burned readily as energy sources by the body, while the long-chain radicals are burned much more slowly, and have a tendency to remain in storage until forced into the bloodstream by extreme starvation or extreme exercise routines. Literally, you have to be sweating Crisco to get rid of these long-chain radicals. You also risk developing a condition called "ketosis" when your body begins utilizing these long-chain radicals.
A cast iron skillet will work just fine, just get it good and hot. A Swedish friend of mine uses a iron skillet. I set my elec. plate at the highest setting (I think it's 450 to 500 degrees. The numbers wore off years ago. LOL You can use a wooden yardstick as a turner/flipper. I know some folks have made lefse with a regular rolling pin, but a lefse rolling pin works much better and much faster.
A Norwegian tourist goes to Chicago, and an Italian decides to take him to a pizza joint.
The Norse takes one look at the counter and says, "Who trew up on da Lefse??"
ROFL! My Norwegian father tells that joke whenever lefse is in the room! Uff-da! :)
I sent you the recipe I use in your FReep mail. :)
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