Lefse Rolling Machine

Having a filled flour sifter helps for flouring the rolling pin and pastry cloth before every roll.

Lefse rolling machine.

I m showing the instant version of making the dough. Rolling pin cover we use a tube sock. It is cooked on a large flat griddle special tools are used to prepare lefse including long wooden turning sticks and special rolling pins with deep grooves. Feel free to be creative with this flatbread.

There is one fryer per two rolling machines so timing is crucial. The knobs help hold flour and air and prevents sticking. I ve included two different lefse recipes in this post. About a dozen people peel potatoes mix dough and hand roll the flatbread at the.

Sharon seifert flips lefse on a grill while her co workers roll the dough at countryside lefse in blair wis. Make a breakfast lefse with scrambled eggs and bacon. 210 west jessie street po box 692 rushford mn 55971 800 584 6777 or 507 864 2323 open monday saturday 7am 2pm. Or smear them with cream cheese and add deli meats or leftover cooked meat for a rollup.

Rub flour on the rolling pin before rolling each new dough ball. ˈlɛ fsə is a traditional soft norwegian flatbread it is made with potatoes often but not always flour butter and milk or cream. The sifted flour. A square cut knobbed lefse rolling pin such as this one works better than a smooth rolling pin.

Lefse making equipment including a lefse griddle and lefse rolling pin are for sale at lefse time. Here are the supplies you need to make lefse. The lefse must be watched closely as it can burn easily. While the lefse is hot it is still very fragile so it must be handled gently.

Lefse rolling machine is first of its kind so far as i know it s the first and only mechanical lefse rolling machine in the world says evan granrud opheim mont inventor. After the frying process is completed the rounds are transferred to the cooling conveyor. The process for rolling and grilling the lefse is the same for both the traditional and instant recipes. The lefse rolling machines were designed and built in the small rural community of rushford minnesota home of norsland lefse and a great many norwegian american folks.

Yes it s clean. Following the flood of 2007 the one of a kind rolling machines were cleaned up and reworked by norsland lefse s staff to make them operable once again. He recalls visiting the factory in its early days when some maintenance work was needed on the machines and the ladies would whistle him back to check out the problem. Some lefse factories use pressing machines.