Lefsa

Today I had to bring in my snack from my culture. I chose to bring in lefse because this food has kind of been a major thing in my family. My grandpa and grandma on my moms side used to make lefse in their basement and sell it to local grocery stores. My mom and my aunts and uncles would help make lefse when they were younger. I also had the chance to make lefse with my grandparents in their basement where they used to distribute it from. The lefse was called “Elaine’s Lefse”, Elaine was my grandmas’ name. I was not able to make the lefse because I did not have the correct equipment and time but if I would have had these things I think I would have been able to make some homemade lefse for the class to taste. I have grown up around lefse and it has been part of our holidays ever since I was born. I thought it was kind of funny when some of the class did not know what this was. But then I remembered it is a Norwegian food and not many people in the class were from North Dakota or even Norwegian. My family has always put butter and sugar and also brown sugar sometimes on the lefse. I have always lefse and I think it will be something I will pass down to my children as well and also maybe even teach them how to make it. Making lefse is not an easy task as it takes some patients and concentration as well. You use potatoes and then take a rolling pin and roll it out until it is pretty thin and about fifteen inches circular. Then you cook it on a lefse cooker I guess you could call it and it is a circular grill that is flat and you use a flat wooden stick to flip it and you only flip it once and it only takes a few minutes to cook.