Today when area families enjoy lefse as a part of their holiday tradition, they may be using Lucia Schroeder's recipe. The Glyndon, Minn., woman has been teaching classes on how to make the ...

"Uff da!" I caught myself saying as I attempted to roll a mixture of flour, milk, margarine and mashed potatoes into paper-thin sheets. I even sound like a Norwegian, I thought to myself. Getting the ...

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 ...

Are you puzzled by recipes from relatives and church cookbooks that lack necessary information? My dad’s theory about recipes with missing data is that Aunt Martha wants to be remembered as the best ...

BEMIDJI, Minn. — Every year around the holidays, Gerri Thorsgard and her friends meet in Bemidji over 40 pounds of potatoes and a shared mission — lefse. The tradition started a dozen years ago when ...

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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.

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 ...

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 ...