Lefse Tips

LEFSE MAKING TIPS

Gladys Hove, the first inductee into the online Lefse Hall of Fame, (click on the name to visit) shared these tips with the founder's wife:

 

• Put a bread board under the lefse grill - it gets very hot!
• Can eat lefse warm; if it has cooled just microwave for a few seconds and add butter and sugar
• Don't put salt in the potatoes when boiling them
• Rice or mash the potatoes as soon as they are done boiling (somewhat soft)
• Use a "stocking" (cover) over the rolling pin (Gladys used two!)
• Sprinkle and rub flour on the rolling pin
• Place the dough on a floured board
• Use a pastry cloth and board to roll on (or you can just roll on the counter)
• Cover lefse with cloth while cooling
• Freeze lefse only after completely cooled
• Wash the rolling pin cover and pastry board cover in the washing machine
• Gotta have a turner - lefse stick - of some sort!
• It's important to add more flour to the board and rub it in the board each time before returning lefse to board
• Turn the lefse while it's on the grill a few times - just don't leave it there!
• Rub the grill with a wad of bunched up waxed paper to clean the surface each time!
• Cover the lefse with a cotton cloth dish towel
• Cool before wrapping in Saran Wrap
• Place the cooled lefse in a plastic baggie and freeze
• Lefse will keep well in the freezer for a year or more

Lefse recipe

LEFSE MAKING TIPS

Gladys Hove, the first inductee into the online Lefse Hall of Fame, (click on the name to visit) shared these tips with the founder's wife:

 

• Put a bread board under the lefse grill - it gets very hot!
• Can eat lefse warm; if it has cooled just microwave for a few seconds and add butter and sugar
• Don't put salt in the potatoes when boiling them
• Rice or mash the potatoes as soon as they are done boiling (somewhat soft)
• Use a "stocking" (cover) over the rolling pin (Gladys used two!)
• Sprinkle and rub flour on the rolling pin
• Place the dough on a floured board
• Use a pastry cloth and board to roll on (or you can just roll on the counter)
• Cover lefse with cloth while cooling
• Freeze lefse only after completely cooled
• Wash the rolling pin cover and pastry board cover in the washing machine
• Gotta have a turner - lefse stick - of some sort!
• It's important to add more flour to the board and rub it in the board each time before returning lefse to board
• Turn the lefse while it's on the grill a few times - just don't leave it there!
• Rub the grill with a wad of bunched up waxed paper to clean the surface each time!
• Cover the lefse with a cotton cloth dish towel
• Cool before wrapping in Saran Wrap
• Place the cooled lefse in a plastic baggie and freeze
• Lefse will keep well in the freezer for a year or more

Lefse recipe