Lefse

Soft potato flatbread rolled with butter and sugar.

Ingredients

• 1 kg Potatoes
• 1½ cups Flour
• 100 g Butter
• ½ cup Cream
• 2 tbsp Sugar
• 1 tsp Salt

Method

1. Cook the potatoes — Boil, peel and rice the potatoes while hot, then cool completely.
2. Make the dough — Mix in the butter, cream, sugar and salt, then work in the flour at the last moment — added early it turns tough.
3. Roll thin — Roll pieces out very thin on a floured cloth.
4. Griddle — Cook on a dry hot griddle for about 1 minute a side until spotted brown.
5. Keep soft — Stack under a damp towel as they come off.
6. Lefse is ready — Spread with butter and sugar, roll up, and eat.

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