One of my favorite traditions is making lefse on Christmas Eve morning at Grandma's house. This year we prepared the dough the night before and brought it along. It is made from mashed potatoes, 5 pounds or so, of course made with butter and mashed as finely as possible, no lumps, so that it will ultimately roll out smoothly. Having no lumps required lots of taste testing. Lots.
Sister C. was there, me & the 3 girls, and Grandma. We brought Starbucks. Since Grandma had taught us so well, basically she hung out while we did the mixing, rolling, and cooking on the griddles.
The little kid got to do some of the cooking. She did a great job turning the lefse, which is really hard. The griddle is extremely hot. When it is bubbling on the underside, you have to quickly slide the turner all the way under the lefse, turn, then flatten it out.
The older girls were just quietly and efficiently doing their part rolling and cooking. My main job this year was mixing the dough (so now we all truly know how to make it, start to finish). Grandma, C & I only rolled out 2-3 lefse each. The girls did all the rest!
More photos here:
Making Christmas Lefse
And I noticed by chance that S.'s recipe for lefse is now on Allrecipes!! I submitted it for her, as at 12 she is too young to submit.
Christmas Lefse on Allrecipes
Lefse is very tasty spread with butter and either white sugar or brown sugar (I prefer the latter). Yum!
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Making Lefse Xmas Eve
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Awesome job! Can I come over next week for a lesson? Or maybe just samples??? ;-)
I guess I'll keep on with the Ingebretsen's until I get really brave and buy a griddle. Some day.
Great memory maker for you and the kids, though.
Happy New Year!!!!
Manuela
Looks like something my BelovedSpousalUnit would like (except for the flour mess.) Do you mix any flour in with the potatoes or is it just for the rolling out?
Happy Frozen New Year to you and yours.
Hi Wunx-The messy flour part was just us having fun. For each batch of lefse, you do have to add quite a bit a flour, otherwise it is too sticky to roll out. I used 2 scoops of flour for each batch, about softball size, maybe bigger.
oh-and wunx, check out the recipe on allrecipes.com, it is called Christmas Lefse (i don't think the link will past properly here)
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