We can thank the lefse. On the afternoon of Christmas Eve, my dad dug out Grandma Haugen's old lefse grill. A large, round, formidable contraption, the grill was a thing of beauty, a thing of family ...

Today when area families enjoy lefse as a part of their holiday tradition, they may be using Lucia Schroeder's recipe. The Glyndon, Minn., woman has been teaching classes on how to make the ...

"Uff da!" I caught myself saying as I attempted to roll a mixture of flour, milk, margarine and mashed potatoes into paper-thin sheets. I even sound like a Norwegian, I thought to myself. Getting the ...

I needed to find what The Herald had written previously about lefse — the Scandinavian potato flatbread — so I did a search on our website. When dozens of obituaries popped up, I was struck by the ...

The couple makes lefse every day, usually for about three hours a day, but it's not a chore for them. Lorraine Ellingson wears a pink apron and Odney Ellingson stands ready at the grills. They've ...

Are you puzzled by recipes from relatives and church cookbooks that lack necessary information? My dad’s theory about recipes with missing data is that Aunt Martha wants to be remembered as the best ...

Peel, chop and boil potatoes. Once soft, drain water and set aside. Cube the butter and place in bottom of a large heatproof bowl. Pour cooked potatoes over the butter and beat with a hand mixer, just ...

READY TO ROLL: Sons of Norway lodge offers lefse-making class For every lefse recipe handed down from grandma, there probably are a hundred more variations for making those flat potato-y rounds that ...

One of the beautiful things about living in the upper Midwest is that lefse could well be on the table at Thanksgiving and Christmas. The Norwegian potato flatbread might not be as important as the ...

Volunteers and food service staff at Bethel Home in Viroqua warmed up a gray afternoon by baking lefse, Wednesday, Nov. 15. Eleven volunteers, some of whom were newbies, worked in the nursing home’s ...