Makes about 50 to 60 pieces. Note: You will need to begin this a day in advance. From Beatrice Ojakangas. Cover potatoes with water and boil until tender when poked with a fork; do not overcook and ...

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 ...

FOLEY, Minn. — Amy Marquard is all about precision, in life and in the kitchen. “I probably should have been a food scientist, because I love technique and process,” said Marquard, who does accounts ...

For every lefse recipe handed down from grandma, there probably are a hundred more variations for making those flat potato-y rounds that taste so good with everything, said Cindy Dahl, a lefse-making ...

If Minnesota had a state food, it would be lefse. Granted, we already have a state mushroom (the morel), and even a state muffin (blueberry), but what we lack is just a general food item. Lefse should ...

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Round balls of dough ready on plates. Irons heated. Round wooden boards lined up and down the kitchen counter. Sons of Norway lefse makers were ready to roll for the holidays a few weeks before their ...