I’m a sixth-generation lefse maker. In the 1880s, my great-great-grandmother, Kari Brandum, brought our family lefse recipe with her from the Lillehammer region of Norway when she immigrated to ...

Lefse. It's a paper-thin flatbread, made from potatoes and cooked on a griddle, flipped with a long, narrow wooden stick, and eaten slathered with butter, sugar and sometimes cinnamon. If you're of ...

It’s one batch down and another batch to go on Sunday as Else Rike (left) and granddaughter Olivia Rike-Norman finish packaging the first 16 lefse rounds. Else Rike says she never freezes her lefse.

Butte's Daughters of Norway continue their decades-old tradition of making lefse, the Norwegian flatbread, using family recipes and tools passed down through generations. Butte's Daughters of Norway ...

Come the holiday season, Evelyn Hensrud gives her lefse griddle a good workout. During the past 50 years, Hensrud has made thousands of rounds of the soft Norwegian flatbread on the Bethany she got ...

ROCHESTER — You'd think that after 20 years of helping my husband make traditional Norwegian lefse for the holidays, I'd catch on to the process. But no matter how many pounds of potatoes I peel, boil ...

RUSHFORD, Minn. — The market for lefse, a traditional Norwegian flatbread, is relatively small in comparison to other foods, but Norsland Lefse has found a way to reach its demographic from the small ...

First-timer Diane Matranga, whose mother was Norwegian, said recipes and know-how often die with relatives. "They had a class here last weekend," she said, rolling out rounds of dough. "Everybody ...

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 ...

Lefse. It’s a paper-thin flatbread, made from potatoes and cooked on a griddle, flipped with a long, narrow wooden stick, and eaten slathered with butter, sugar and sometimes cinnamon. If you’re of ...