FOREST CITY — Ernest Thompson deftly cut the skin from a hot potato. The skinned potato was handed to Nancy Olson who put it in a bowl so she could use a ricer on it. Olson gripped a ricer in her ...

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 ...

This is the lefse recipe used by the women of Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Pequot Lakes twice a year. They make lefse (pronounced "leff-sah") each summer at their church bazaar and then they make ...

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 ...

Roll lefse circles as thin as possible. Don't use too much flour or you get dry, crisp edges. Don't add flour to your big batch, but work with two cups of potatoes at a time so it doesn't get too warm ...

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 ...

If you're a lefse fan, you're probably already familiar with this company. Freddy's Lefse, 176 E. Main Ave., West Fargo, has operated in Fargo-Moorhead since 1946. The company makes and sells lefse - ...

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 ...

Big ideas can come from standing around a county fair. I learned that in June during a week of exhilaration and exhaustion of watching kids' 4-H project work come to a close, with joy and sometimes a ...

You take 5 pounds of russet potatoes, cooked. Rice them while hot. Add ½ cup of heavy cream, ½ cup (one stick) of butter, 1 tablespoon of salt and 4 tablespoons sugar. Then you are on your way to ...