BLAIR (AP) - It's not the smell of traditional Norwegian lefse-making that first strikes visitors to the Countryside Lefse factory. It's the sound - the thump, thump, thump of women whomping rolling ...

Sons of Norway Polar Star chapter 5-472 will host a free Norwegian cooking class on Saturday, Jan. 6. Montgomery resident Vy Skogen will teach making lefse, Norwegian potato flatbread,at 9 a.m. at St.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

KASSON, Minn. — Lutefisk is what you get when you soak cod in lye. It doesn’t sound like the most appetizing treat, but many descendants of Norwegian and Swedish immigrants can’t get enough of it, ...

While lefse has been made for generations by South Dakota cooks, their ranks are thinning. Yet for novices willing to replicate the melt-in-your-mouth goodness of this Norwegian snack, these thin ...

DULUTH — Ever find yourself on a winter run and craving some warm Norwegian potato bread? The third annual Lefse Run on Saturday combines the tradition of Norwegian lefse with a free fun run with a ...

In Norway, there are five seasons, each with their own mood, seasonal ingredients, and festivals. Nevada Berg married a Norwegian partner and now lives in the country, in a 17th century farmhouse. She ...