Odney and Lorraine Ellingson work as a team to make lefse. She rolls the dough, and he fries it. Together, the Grand Forks couple have made lefse for more than 50 years. This year, they plan to make ...

ULEN, Minn. - Doug Lindsay saw what life had in store for him the day his Norwegian girlfriend came toward him with a rolling pin. Nearly 30 years later, they're still making beautiful lefse together ...

We can thank the lefse. On the afternoon of Christmas Eve, my dad dug out Grandma Haugen's old lefse grill. A large, round, formidable contraption, the grill was a thing of beauty, a thing of family ...

READY TO ROLL: Sons of Norway lodge offers lefse-making class For every lefse recipe handed down from grandma, there probably are a hundred more variations for making those flat potato-y rounds that ...

A month or so ago, I stood in a church basement, showing off. A group of us — parents and teens — were gathered around hot grills, preparing to make hundreds of pieces of lefse for a fundraiser. "Have ...

I needed to find what The Herald had written previously about lefse — the Scandinavian potato flatbread — so I did a search on our website. When dozens of obituaries popped up, I was struck by the ...

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 ...

There is a saying that no matter how long you handle horses, you never learn all there is to know about them. I feel the same way about wine. And about making lefse. Our scrappy lefse-making group has ...

The Anderson family will celebrate its 42nd annual Lefse Day on Dec. 21. This cherished family ritual started out modestly. Marilyn Chalstrom and her sister, Beverly Anderson, missed the wafer-thin ...

“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 ...

Volunteers and food service staff at Bethel Home in Viroqua warmed up a gray afternoon by baking lefse, Wednesday, Nov. 15. Eleven volunteers, some of whom were newbies, worked in the nursing home’s ...

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 ...