Baking Lefse, Norwegian Folk Museum

 

 

                                                Lefse.

My mouth waters even as I think about lefse… that delicious Scandinavian flatbread that our grandmother used to make.

So when on a visit to the Norwegian Folk Museum in Oslo, Norway we spotted a sign saying that lefse was being made in the Old Bake House in the Old Town you can guess where I headed.

Inside a traditional (authentic, very old) bakery a young woman in traditional dress was busily rolling out the dough…

and baking it in an oven just like ones that would have been used in Norway many generations ago.

She explained that this was a special lefse recipe that was often served at weddings. (It tasted sweeter than lefse I remembered from my youth, but just as delicious.)

The delicious aromas that filled the small bakery brought back so many memories of making the lefse dough, rolling it out, and best of all…baking it right on the top of a wood burning stove. Correction, the best memory was eating the lefse spread with butter and sometimes a little bit of brown sugar.

And that is just what we did at the Norwegian Folk Museum as well!

 

How to Get to the Norwegian Folk Museum

– we took the hop-on, hop-off city tour bus

-by ferry (catch in front of City Hall, get off at stop #1 Dronningen) (about a 10 minute crossing)

Other information

www.norskfolkemuseum.no

– admission was included in our Oslo Pass

 

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