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 ...

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 ...

Anyone who’s tried to make Norwegian flatbread knows that lefse is nothing short of a “pain in the butt.” So says Tacoma bakery owner Dagmar Simard, who I believe may be the only Tacoma baker still ...

MaryBeth Davis fills her holidays with family, friends and lots of lefse. Davis, of Cutten, has been eating the traditional soft, thin Norwegian flatbread since she was a child. “Lefse is probably one ...

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 ...

“Honestly, the first time I tried it, I thought it was just OK,” said Eva Hjorth, who grew up in Sweden, but married a Norwegian. What lefse lacks in glamour, it makes up for in sentimentality. Any ...

It”s not the smell of traditional Norwegian lefse-making that first strikes visitors to the Countryside Lefse factory in Blair, Wisc. It”s the sound — the thump, thump, thump of women whomping rolling ...

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 ...