On Sunday the women of the Thoe family gathered to practice
the time-honored tradition of making lefse.
Our great-aunts have been making lefse for family
gatherings, the church bizarre and smörgåsbords for years. When
we put together the lefse party, we didn’t realize that my great-aunt Martha’s lefse
is something of a legend, and her recipe a well-kept family secret.
I headed to Grandma’s house on Saturday night to boil and
rice the potatoes. Grandma filled me in on Martha’s prowess in the art of
Scandinavian culinary delights. I then suggested that we could use our lefse at
the family thanksgiving, but Grandma didn’t know if our lefse would be suitable
to serve guests. I started to sense that I was in over my head…
We all gathered the next day, added the flour and started rolling balls. The aunts started to discuss the going-rate of lefse over the years. They figured $1.25 was the current rate for a package of 3 lefse rolls, but they also acknowledged that really good lefse could go for $1 apiece. After our first few attempts, Connie remarked, “Well you wouldn’t get a dollar for that one!”
It was a really wonderful day, and Michelle and I have high
hopes that someday soon we will be able to make lefse suitable to serve to
guests!
Thanks Grandma, Loretta, Connie & Martha for such a great day! xo
Make sure you two really learn how to make it, so you can carry on the tradition and teach your own children. You tell Grandma her lefse could be served anywhere! You always have to have those few that are holey and very mis-shapened for 'eat nows'. And now you reminded me I need to get some made soon. Mona
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