[8mmMauser]

So what IS your mother's lefse recipe? Don't just brag about having it, share!

Uff da! Well, here it is verbatum but you have to fill in the blanks. Mom didn't like to waste a lot of words.

Lefse

6 cups flour

salt

2 cup boiling water

1/2 cup butter

egg,milk, glazing.

Well, that is it.

The Household Searchlight of 1938 is tabulated, so easy to sort through. We have worn the tabs to unreadable over the years, but it still works, sort of. But even if the book were to be cooked, Mom's lefse is better.

Hmmm, are we a little off-topic?

8mm

[metmom]

*GASP* Oh, no! The thread got hijacked. The horror!

[metmom]

So what do you do to it?

[T'wit]

Your lefse: work ingredients into a dough, refrigerate, roll thin, cut out manageable pieces of whatever shape you like (some use pot lids for cutting the dough), fry in deep fat or on a greased skillet.

Lefse are often made with potatoes and flour. (Shhh! You can use instant mashed potatoes for this. In fact it saves a lot of time and bother.)

Here is a Minnesota staple :-) I trust I need not translate?

Yew tak yust ten big potatoes
Den yew boil dem till dar done.
Yew add to dis some sveet cream
And by cups it measures vun.
Den yew steal tree ounces of butter
An vit two fingers pinch some salt.
Yew beat dis wery lightly
If it ain't gude it iss your fault.
Den yew roll dis tin vit flour
An light brown on stove yew bake.
Now call in all Scandihuvians
Tew try da fine lefse yew make.

[T'wit]

One other comment on lefse. Take a fresh piece. Put on butter. Put on sugar. Fold in two, like a sandwich. Eat.

[ruoflaw]

God bless you for the lefse recipe! I miss my grandmother and her wonderful lefse.

[T'wit]

Disregard my previous cooking directions. Lefse is baked on a dry griddle. Do not cook in hot oil or even fry it on a greased skillet. It would taste good and you could heap it with Troll Cream, but it wouldn’t be lefse.