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Mix
flour into potato mixture with hands or with a pastry blender.
Flour a pastry cloth generously; roll balls of dough into thin circles. Lift circle of dough with lefse stick, place on heated lefse
iron (or ungreased griddle over medium hot burner).
Bake briefly on both sides until small brown spots appear.
Serve
rolled up with butter and sugar.
(adapted
from Maid of Scandinavia)
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Hints: Don’t be afraid to use a
lot of flour; I make sure that the rolling pin is slightly coated with flour,
and I pat each ball of dough into a slightly flat circle and flour both sides
before starting to roll. The pastry
cloth helps immensely because it holds the flour in.
Experiment with different thicknesses when you roll out the dough; I like
the circles to be fairly thin, but if you get them too thin they will become
crisp (almost like flatbread) when you bake them.
I
like to keep the dough covered with a damp dishtowel in the bowl while rolling
out each portion -- it tends to dry out less.
If
you’re a true “Scandihoovian,” you’ll vary the ways to eat lefse; a
great way (kids always love this) is to wrap a piece of lefse around a hot dog
or bratwurst.
You
can keep the dough in the refrigerator for a couple of days if you don’t want
to bake the whole batch at once, but it won’t keep well longer than that.
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