Last Word on Lefse: Heartwarming Stories and Recipes Too!
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Last Word on Lefse: Heartwarming Stories and Recipes Too!
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This time-honored book includes:
* Recipes covering everything from potato lefse to hard lefse you (gasp!) dip in water before serving.
* A "How to Make Lefse" chapter with photographs and tips from the experts.
* Corny songs, poems and jokes. Did you know lefse is an antidote to lutefisk?
* Classic photos of lefse-making tools from museums.
* An original lefse skit for you and your family.
Delight in meeting fascinating characters:
* The Boys of Starbuck, who made the World's Largest Lefse on the shores of Lake Minnewashka.
* Carl Knutson, who wrote lefse songs while selling lefse out of the back of his '47 Chevy.
* Bitten and Torbjorn Norvoll, who related stories of how lefse helped feed people in occupied Norway during World War II.
* Anna Alden, who make lefse on roller skates.
* Grocer Merlin Hoiness, lefse bootlegger.
For the love of lefse, you owe it to yourself and your family to make this book a well-worn addition to your library. Learn to make lefse and pass on the heritage, history and humor of the people who continue this fine-and-flavorful tradition.
The author--concerned that lefse-making was a dying out--traveled to small towns in the Midwest in search of the best lefse makers. As they made lefse, he studied their techniques, copied their recipes, sampled their lefse and coffee, noted their lefse-inspired stories and humor--and put all of it in this heartwarming book.
Lefse is a festive food that in the dead of winter brings to life a warm, loving heritage and inspires wink-wink humor and even some verse.
Never alone and seldom sad,
The life of a lefse maker isn't so bad.
