Lefse
by Janet Fossum
Ingredients
- 6 cups potatoes
- 3 cups flour
- 6 Tbsp half & half
- 1/2 cup butter
- salt (to taste)
Instructions
- Cook potatoes; then mash and then rice potatoes. Let cool.
- Measure potatoes (pack into cup when measuring).
- Mix in melted butter and half and half with hands. Add flour and salt; mix with hands.
- Form into log. Cut off 1/3 cup of dough.
- Roll this using a stocking covered rolling pin on a lightly floured, cloth-covered board.
- Bake on hot lefse griddle (400-500°F). Turn when bubbly on top.
- Bake second side until brown spots appear on bottom side.
- Remove from griddle, fold into fourths and let cool between tea towels.
- When cool, open up completely and refold. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate or freeze.