Lefse afternoon... lesson follows...

Start with potatoes. Boil.

Put boiled potatoes through a ricer. (or you could mash them...)

This is Grandma Anna Berge's ricer. It's very old and very sturdy!

Here are the riced potatoes.

Next add some ingredients; cream, butter, flour, sugar and salt.

Mix and shape into balls to be rolled into circles of lefse.. father and son enjoying themselves!

Dad demonstrates the method.... first he prepares the ball of dough

Then he begins to roll the dough to form a thin, flat circle.

Wally is using the grooved rolling pin made by Uncle Einar years ago. It is covered with a "stocking" cloth which has been floured to prevent the dough from sticking.

And now the tricky part - taking the circle of dough off the board to transfer to the griddle.
Wally is very good at this, of course.

Ah, looks like it is going to work.

Now it is unrolled onto the griddle, using the lefse stick.

This is a close up of the lefse on the griddle, after it was turned over. The brown spots indicate it was cooking. That is good.

Now, all it needs is butter and sugar....... and someone to eat it!

Daniel is trying his hand...

under the watchful eye of Brooklyn and his grandma Mildred.

John makes some too...

and so does Sara.

And finally Brooklyn even gets to make some. She was very good at it, too!