- published: 18 Sep 2014
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Lefse (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈlɛfsə]) is a traditional soft Norwegian flatbread. It is made with leftover potatoes, flour, butter, and milk or cream. It is cooked on a griddle. Special tools are used to prepare lefse, including long wooden turning sticks and special rolling pins with deep grooves.
There are many ways of flavoring lefse. The most common is adding butter to the lefse and rolling it up. In Norway, this is known as "lefse-klenning". Other options include adding cinnamon and/or sugar, or spreading jelly, lingonberries or gomme on it. Scandinavian-American variations include rolling it with a thin layer of peanut butter and sugar, with butter and white or brown sugar, with butter and corn syrup, or with ham and eggs. Also eaten with beef and other savory items like Ribberull and mustard, it is comparable to a tortilla. Lefse is a traditional accompaniment to lutefisk, and the fish is often rolled up in the lefse.
There are significant regional variations in Norway in the way lefse is made and eaten, but it generally resembles a flatbread, although in many parts of Norway, especially Valdres, it is far thinner.
C'mon drift away through fundamental boundaries
To find ourselves surrounding
The ones who've already gone and come back stronger
All is numb
I've been lost too long
My fate's been mistakenly chosen
All is numb
Yeah I've done you wrong
My fate's been mistakenly chosen
Here you'll stay
Where lies are spread wide open
And ties are not so strong
That place you'll never find me
I've already gone
[chorus]
I guess my thinking too much is what's been fuckin' me up
It's my own worst enemy, but
It will never own me...
Who am I kidding anyway?
[chorus]