“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 ...

On the table, I noticed a dish I had never seen before. Lefse. For those unfamiliar, lefse is a traditional Norwegian flatbread — round, thin, pale, humble. Not flashy. Not fancy. Not trying to ...

Mother-daughter baking duo, Heidi Koeritz and Hayley Luther, shared a longstanding holiday tradition, lefse making, with the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For many Norwegian-American families, the biggest Christmas treat isn't foil-wrapped chocolate or sugar-dusted cookies. It's lefse, a simple flatbread. Lefse are sort of like soft tortillas, made ...

Every culture has its flat bread, and for Norwegians, it is lefse. Lefse is not quite a crepe and it is not quite a tortilla. Lefse is a thin... Dec 24, 2014 — Every culture has its flat bread, and ...

Last week, a very nice lady named Meredith taught me how to make lefse. Now, if you didn’t grow up saying things like, "uff da" and "you betcha," you probably have no idea what I’m talking about. 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 ...