Everybody From The Midwest Has Had This Classic & Super Traditional Dish Once Or Twice In Their Lifetime

Everybody From The Midwest Has Had This Classic & Super Traditional Dish Once Or Twice In Their Lifetime

We like to serve these in the morning with a cup of coffee or tea. You can sub out the butter and use a fresh jam if you are on some weird health kick where you can't have anything good.

Let's Get Started…

The Ingredients To Gather:

  • 1 batch = 24 lefse
  • ADD to: 3 cups boiling water:
  • 1 ½ teas. salt
  • ¾ cup margarine or butter
  • 2 1/3 cup canned evaporated milk
  • ¼ cup sugar
  • Heat all until real hot. Now ADD:
  • 4 cups Idahoen instant potatoes (you can use any brand)
  • (2 lbs 4 oz makes 6 batches)
  • Mix like for eating. Chill. Then ADD:
  • 1 ½ to 2 cups flour when ready to roll. (Mix with hands until flour is absorbed)

Instructions To Follow:

  1. Form lefse dough into golf ball sized (or larger) portions.
  2. ROLL out flat with Lefse rolling pin using flour as needed (so it won’t stick) turning often with lefse turner until thin.
  3. Use lefse turner to lift from pastry board to griddle.
  4. Bake on Lefse griddle at 410-435 degrees until golden brown bubbles appear.
  5. Flip with lefse turner and brown other side.
  6. Stack lefse on towel and cover with another towel until baking is finished to prevent drying out.
  7. Once cooled, lefse freezes well.

Finished!

Have You Ever Made This Midwestern Treat Before? If Sooo Tell Us About It & How It Turned Out.

Happy Baking & Enjoy!

Article Source: Lefse Time

Photo Source: Cook Lime 





24 Comments

  1. Susan Severson Aurand
    Susan Severson Aurand June 30, 00:13

    All the Severson’s know about Lefse!

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  2. Ludy's Kitchen
    Ludy's Kitchen July 07, 13:00

    Cool info thanks :p

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  3. Phyllis Hegy
    Phyllis Hegy July 07, 21:34

    Lease

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  4. Phyllis Hegy
    Phyllis Hegy July 07, 21:36

    Lefse

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  5. Jane Conley Anderson
    Jane Conley Anderson July 08, 01:32

    We had a lot of Sweeds marry into our German family and Lefse was one of the many foods that became tradition. That was in Minnesota “don’t cha know”.

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  6. Glenda N Wince
    Glenda N Wince August 25, 19:06

    looks like flat bread with confectioner sugar inside of it

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  7. Sherry Vollbrecht Clark
    Sherry Vollbrecht Clark August 25, 19:26

    lnks like lefsa but a little to thick

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  8. Sherry Vollbrecht Clark
    Sherry Vollbrecht Clark August 25, 19:28

    i use these for taco shells after frying in butter.

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  9. Janis Petrushka
    Janis Petrushka August 25, 20:04

    Mid west no east coast, stove rags the ladies here have been making them for generations .

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  10. A Lot of Recipes
    A Lot of Recipes August 25, 23:03

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  11. Walter Leninsky III
    Walter Leninsky III August 26, 02:06

    Flap jack?

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  12. Virginia Clark
    Virginia Clark August 26, 12:01

    Lefsa!!

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  13. Ludy's Kitchen
    Ludy's Kitchen August 28, 02:00

    Sweet

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  14. Best recipes daily
    Best recipes daily August 28, 10:12

    Sharing this on my wall cause it is cool keep it up

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  15. Susan Dahl
    Susan Dahl November 16, 16:41

    Sorry, but that is not a piece of lefse, lefse is very thin, this looks like a pancake

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  16. Steve Daniels
    Steve Daniels November 16, 16:56

    Swedish pancake?

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  17. Bev Smith
    Bev Smith July 27, 18:06

    I am from the midwest and have NEVER heard of these. What is a lefse? Hell I don’t even know how to pronounce that word!

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  18. Jon Stanton
    Jon Stanton July 27, 18:32

    Whatever it is it needs garlic

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  19. Margy Reiss
    Margy Reiss July 27, 20:12

    This lefsa looks a bit thick. I had it very thin like a crepe. lef-sa

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  20. Nancy Thomas
    Nancy Thomas July 28, 03:07

    It’s a Norwegian treat. I never remember my mother or grandma using garlic ever.

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  21. Amanda Christine
    Amanda Christine July 29, 05:56

    Grew up on grandma’s lease! And this is certainly waaaay too thick! Whoever made this one must not know how to make it. Yummy yummy!

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  22. Cindy Harris Spaulding
    Cindy Harris Spaulding October 15, 13:08

    Not everyone!

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  23. Kathy Kline Christopher
    Kathy Kline Christopher December 10, 22:43

    The lefse in the picture is way too thick!

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