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Baking lefse

Taste freshly baked traditional Norwegian lefse.

Watch the process, smell the baking - and taste the result! 
Buy a voucher in the Visitor Center or pay with Vipps.

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    Morten Brun / Norsk Folkemuseum
  • Two women baking lefse
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  • Close up of baking lefse
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  • Woman showing a traditional baked lefse
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Hardangerlefse

2 eggs
250 grams sugar
125 grams melted butter/margarin
1/2 litre buttermilk
1 teaspoon baking powder
(in Norway: Hornsalt or ammoniumcarbonate)
ca. 1 kilo fine wheat flour

Barley flour
Butter, sugar, cinnamon

  • Mix eggs with sugar and butter, and stir into the milk.
  • Mix baking powder with some flour and stir it into the blend.
  • Mix with enough flour so that the dought is easy to roll.
  • Use barley flour to roll out the lefse - its easier.
  • Bake the "lefse" on a griddle or in a dry frying pan.
  • Serve with butter, sugar and cinnamon on top.

"Lefser" also freeze well.

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