Emily Makes: Lefse!
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 8 окт 2024
- My family has been making lefse for generations. Here is the recipe as given to me by my grandmother, verbatim:
Lefsa
Day Before:
Cook potatoes (10-30 lbs) whatever you think you will need
Mix while hot:
8 cups potatoes
1/2 cup heavy cream
8 tablespoons butter
1 tablespoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar
Cool overnight (in the garage works good if its pretty cool)
Next day to 8 cups of the potato mixture add 3 cups flour. Mix well.
Put plenty of flour on the pastry board/pastry cloth (about 1/2 cup)
Heat grill to 400 degrees
Items you will need:
Wax paper
Towels (dish)
Lefsa stick ((for turning)
Lefsa grill
Lefsa rolling pin
Lefsa rolling pin soc
Pastry board with pastry cloth
Ricer for potatoes
Lots of Norwegian helpers
Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Recipe of Grandpa and Grandma Graslie
December 2003
-------------
Thanks to my sister Serri (serrigraslie.com/) for performing commendable camera work on this video, for my mother for providing necessary assistance behind-the-scenes, and for the rest of my dorky Norwegian family for insisting we make lefse every year to keep traditions alive.
Happy Holidays!
@ehmee
ehmeegee.tumblr.com
/ thebrainscoop
thebrainscoop.tumblr.com
This Norwegian thinks this was the cutest video ever.
As a Norwegian, I approve of this.
Good job Emily! By the time you are a grandma you will be able to make perfect lefsa even without a recipe! Keep the traditions alive.
My brother and I had some yummy lefse from a food cart in Portland last summer. Your video brought back that memory Delicious!
To borrow (and slightly alter) a line from the movie, "Thor":
You rolled. You fried. You made your ancestors proud. :)
From one Norwegian to another, well done!
This makes me feel much more Christmasy not being able to get back to my family this year :)
You always leave us feeling like we are "Internet Friends", thank you. And every kitchen could use light sabers... slices, dices, cauterizes and makes mounds of julienned fries.
Emily, you're making me hungry. That looks delicious.
Aww we make lefse (also some other, awful, Norwegian foods but I actually like eating lefse) around the holidays too!! Norwegian-Americans unite!
ragnkja Well...the Scandinavians like fermented fish. Like, fish that has been sitting in a jar for an entire year. Need I say more? ;)
4dianasaur ragnkja
My father insists on buying lutefisk and some other weird fish-based product thing to bring to family gatherings every...single...year. Ugh lol.
My aunt makes this sweetbread though (I think it's Norwegian, it's got a funky name that I can't remember) and that's pretty good!
MuchToDoAboutNowt Pickled herring is pretty good. My German Grandpa always said it'd put hair on your chest. Lutefisk though is basically fish jelly with bones in it.
Do you have that brown cheese that tastes like Cheez Whiz crossed with peanut butter and jelly?
+Gary Cooper its gjetost! I didn't grow up with it, but I had friends who did.
I am Norwegian and make it about twice a year. If that is your first time making it that is a good job. I have been making it from about the age of 8. I love running the griddle. I even got my own Lefse turning stick for Christmas one year.
Might try this with sweet potatoes at some point.
Oooh, intriguing!
that sounds heavenly.
This must be a regional recipe. Overnight in the garage at Christmas around here would result in a giant potato ice brick.
this was the perfect video to watch before heading to bed after a lovely christmas eve :D
I got a lefse stick at Vesterheim, 30 years ago. It’s beautifully rosemaled. It hangs on my wall for nail Christmas.
Your family helping with the recording makes this extra cute! :)
Love your headband, Emily. Put it on Soon Raccoon next year!
This was brilliant. Even if no animals were dissected in the making of this video. Happy Holidays Emily!
Awesome, i'm going to try this. Definitely have to find one of those skillets - that'll make naan & paratha so much easier!
Please let us know when you hit the big time acting roles. Delightfully entertaining as well as instructional. Thank you Emily. Scott
looks like a great way for a family to spend the holidays!
Also I wish you had time to do more personal videos. They're great and hilarious and quite informative.
I didn't know you had this channel until I saw this vid on twitter. Yay! More Emily!
I had never seen lefse made before! The college I went to was founded by Norwegian immigrants, and every December the cafeteria makes delicious lefse! (And lutefisk, but I try to forget about that.)
Aww, this video made my day. My college roommate and her mom made lefse every year. They got me hooked. Now I just need all the tools to make it. :)
Nice demonstration of both cooking and the Leidenfrost effect.
my grandma makes lefse at least once a year too. the lefse is good but liked being around grandma even more.
This looks delicious. I might follow these instructions, cause it does look really good. Thanks Emily :)
Good job! According to my grandma, total lefse perfection will be achieved after you make 3000. and that may be the first river, we have the same kind.
You should do Krum kaka next! That stuff is amazing! :)
And I'm not embarassed, I'm proud. You've made more lefse than I have in my entire life (i.e. more than none).
Thought I'd revisit this great video.
Loved this!
Yay! Lefse! And Norwegians! God Jul!
Potatoes and sugar! My two favorite things!
YOU FORGOT THE CINNAMON! :P
Butter, sugar, cinnamon!
Hang on, that is unless this is actually a potetkake. In that case, screw the cinnamon :P
Sugar and cinnamon was already premixed
Emily, you're the greatest.
I love lefse, kumla is also delicious
Adorably brilliant
At least you didn't have to eat any lutefisk to get the lefse! :)
Oh yummy. I've had this at my boyfriend's house. His family is Norwegian, but I think this is the only traditional food they ever make besides krumkake. And they have an ancient krumkake iron.
Yum! This is totally awesome, eh? I miss the Midwest. Can't find good lefse in NJ! Good job (loving the off camera noise & instruction & corrections too) Merry Christmas, Emily.
An easy recipe for a thicker kind of lefse you can bake in the oven:
200 ml sour cream
3 tbsp sugar
2-3 tbsp syrup
200 ml milk
~400 g wheat flour
2 tsp ammonium bicarbonate
Filling:
200 g butter
7-8 tbsp sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
Whisk sour cream and sugar. Heat syrup until lukewarm and stir it into the milk. Pour the mix into the sour cream. Sieve in flour and ammonium bicarbonate. Stir the dough lightly together. It should be relatively loose, and not elastic. Set to cool for a while.
Divide the dough into about 10 pieces. Roll each piece into about 5 mm thick, circular pieces. Cook each lefse until lightly golden on each side in a dry, hot frying pan, on a takke (what Emily used) or in the oven. They must not cook so much that they become dry.
Place the lefse(s) on top of each other under a baking towel so they stay soft.
Stir together butter, sugar and cinnamon. When the lefse(s) are dry, spread the mix on top and put each against one other. Cut them into wedges.
These can be frozen in plastic bags or boxes, and thaw within about 20 minutes in room temperature.
ragnkja Source: www.allers.no/artikkel/m%C3%B8rlefse
Lefse can be made with just wheat, or wheat and rye, as well. Lefse made from potatoes are often called "potetkake" (potato cake(s) or "lompe".
I'm from Salten, and my mum is from Helgeland, so lefse and gomme are pretty common here. (Now I want white, i.e. non-caramelised gomme.)
I learned something!
"Lefse" is a general term for dough that is cooked on the takke, and remains soft. (Flatbread isn't a kind of lefse because it isn't soft after cooking.)
My Grandma always told us it was " traditionally served with pickled herring"? But when we were kids we always liked it with butter and brown sugar :)
I feel tempted to make this even though I am from a very different part of the world.
Give it a try! Doesn't matter where you are from, good food, is good food! Cultural appropriation is BS anyway. :)
You have a sister named Siri? Does she beep when you ask her a question? :P
EDIT: I Kid! That name seems pretty unique though.
bwhahahahaha!!!
Siri - spelled like that - is a common girls' name in Scandinavia.
flodnak Her name is spelled Serri :)
Which is funny because "Serr?" in Norwegian is how 14 year old girls say the equivalent of "like for real?" or "Seriously?"
Traditional scandinavian food without any fish!? What sorcery is this!?
cecasan Sild is a must with lease. Some even put Lutefisk in a rolled Lefse.
Cool!
I've heard of Lefse, but I haven't seen anyone make it before.
It's like a flour tortilla, but with potatoes (yes, I'm from Texas).
I'm not Norwegian that I know of, but I've been to Norway and I liked it.
Yes it is! And a post-holiday snack in our family is to mash up a Norwegian meatball (Swedish meatballs are bland, IMHO) on a sheet of lefse, and roll it up like a Norwegian burrito. We call them "lefsebusse" but that is probably a made-up word for it.. I was a disappointment to my Grandmother that I never learned to speak the language.
Nice of her to take us into her home, but I don't think anyone caught how to make Lefse from this video.
Emily, I am the one who told you lefse is more like a tortilla. For the record, I'm just as American as you are, I just have some very Norwegian bloodlines, and that's how my mom explained lefse to me when I was little. :)
You're of Norwegian descent? I live in Norway!
I've lived in Norway since I was 6, but I've never known how to make a lefse. I do know how to make the Swedish tunnbröd though.
I don't have a garage, a chest freezer, or a heritage grill… Darn it!!
The lefse I'm used to is covered with a mix of butter, sugar and cinnamon, and then folded multiple times in the same direction and cut into pieces.
Lefse is the best. Lefse, butter and sugar and you're good.
Is that "heritage grill" what we in Norway call a "takke"? It looks like it.
I have the same lefse flipper!
My family prefers to use brown sugar over the cinnamon sugar. Oh so sweeter.
Love the old sock comment.
That does it! Is there an Official Emily Fan Club?
Good despite the absence of dead animals.
I visited Norway some time ago and had the privilege of tasting Lefse. But the kind i had was naturally sweet, even without the butter and sugar topping that is commonly placed on it. Ive been trying to find the recipe for years to no avail. Do you know the recipe for that one?
oh thanks for letting me know about YOUR OTHER CHANNEL
jk merry christmas
dftba
This is the best!!! :D !!! try a tortilla press they will come out rounder :) , Saludos y Feliz Navidad !
Lefse cannot be pressed like that - the dough will end up sticking and/or tearing.
ragnkja
We usually put saran wrap on both ends of the press so it wont stick.
Gabrielle Carpio I'm sorry, but I just can't imagine getting the lefse even enough without sticking or tearing unless you use a patterned rolling pin.
Gabrielle Carpio I'm most used to a different kind of lefse where the dough needs to rest in a cool place for a while to be at all usable, but it may work with "potetkake" (potato cake(s)), as I'm used to calling this kind of lefse.
i see what you mean :) , doughs can be tricky XD !! letting it refrigerate for a while does help tons!!!! thnks for the great tips!!
I am so very glad it does not still have brains on it.
I want a girlfriend that has pigtails on Christmas eve while making traditional foods.
Funny that, I also start dancing at about 400 F.
-J
YES i just made lefse!
why did you stop making videos on this channel?
hey neato! i made lefse with my boyfriend and his family once and straight-up called the lefse sticks "lefse swords" and pretended to be swordmen pretty frequently. swordfights with 2 twin boys and a younger brother is pretty inevitable
Water dancing on a hot surface is called the Leidenfrost effect. www.itsokaytobesmart.com/post/60388319391/leidenfrost-maze
Also those look super yummy. Sounds like a good way to use up leftover mashed potatoes...Not that we ever actually have left over mashed potatoes...
Emily, you should take the "heritage grill" (takke) with you and come visit me! I could get recipes for different kinds of lefse, and we could bake them together!
I believe the shape name you were searching for was "amoeba."
Those seem like they might taste good, but I think I'll stick to my family's tradition of making Italian Pizzelles every year. They are super yummy!
so adorable xDD
It took me far too long to remember that you have your own channel outside of thebrainscoop. "This isn't biology related... but I guess it's educational in a way?"
Leidenfrost effect at 3:20 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leidenfrost_effect
In this video, Emily displays that she's never had Ethopian/Eritrean food--without even knowing it!
(The confusion about how to pronounce injera and what it is was apparent. It's a flatbread from the Horn of Africa, made from feff. It's got a bit of a sourdough-like taste and a somewhat spongy texture. You use it as a utensil for all sorts of Horn of Africa dishes.)
I thought that grain was called Teff. Is Feff another name for it?
Gary Cooper No. I was typing on a mobile device.
...and suddenly I'm hungry
Okay so i like the VIDO
--Grace--
Someone feed Emily Ethiopian food! She's missing out!
I Don't why I Love You
That isn't what Australia is shaped like. Source: I'm Australian. :P
I understand if you want to answer for privacy reasons but what do your siblings do? I am just curious if they are in related professions.
Leidenfrost effect!!
you two sound almost the same :P
Ever make figgy pudding?
god your accent is so cute!
Last year, while making lefse, my grill cracked my coriander counter. So be careful.
Que complicado es hacer esa tortilla
Like lefse humor? Check out Sven the Cat's lefse making episode in Ch. 8 of "The Cats of Laughing Thunder in The New Businesses Adveture" (Amzn)
It looks like
Roti!
Maybe a touch smug?
Okay
Can I have some of your Lefse?
A recipe? Fancy pants. My mom always just adds flour to left over mashed potatoes until it's "just right". I think I'd prefer a recipe.
Sword fights!
you have a sister what !!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have three sisters! I'm the youngest.
ehmteevee I'm the youngest too! I have two older sisters, as well as two nephews and three nieces. =)
pretty much like a gnocchi except flat
Teri Scallon my first impression too... gnocchi fajita cinnamon toast style. rolled up like a dosa
Nah, we poor Norwegians aren't embarassed, we're just wondering what kling you're making, and why Americans always make the thin potatolefse and *only* that. :p
Anyone else come from a brown sugar family?
My Grandmothers would be doing high-RPM in their graves if we put brown sugar on it! The two of them feuded (in a VERY polite Minnesota Norwegian way) over whether or not lefse should even have SUGAR on it.