If you're Norwegian, you've probably rolled up a few pieces of lefse in your day. Countryside Lefse Company in Blair is putting lefse on thousands of tables and in stores across the U.S. and keeping the tradition of this treat alive.

Marshall Olson, the owner, took us on a tour:

Lefse is a Norwegian food basic recipe made with potatoes and flour and some seasoning. The main thing in lefse is the process. It's so basic but tricky.

Made in Norway potatoes left over, frugal Norwegians used it to make lefse the next day. Some restaurant wraps, We get calls for funerals, weddings, graduations and of course stores sell it.

We're a company around for many years. We're hesitant to change the process. We've been doing it the same way since we started. The basic product is still a recipe we used 46 years ago. It's easy to simplify your process to make it easier faster and cheaper, but we've never put cost above quality.

This is the production room where majority of workers are.
This building is designed for making lefse
One of the few still use real potatoes. It's a constant changing of the mix so the lefse will turn out moist.

In the back a guy cooks and cleans potatoes. Over a ton of potatoes a day. Potatoes we buy get washed twice, we peel and wash again.

These gals rolling by hand. No machines, it's very labor intensive. To make good lefse you really need to roll by hand. We like the old way. Rolled by hand baked by hand.

More they roll the more make. Last year we had faster rollers. It's like a ball team got to get them up to speed. They'll roll 4-5,000 a day.

What we look for is speed and stamina.. they'll roll all day... We look for someone who's energetic.

Gets shipped out, it pretty much goes to every state. That's part of the business is the mail order end.

Olson says he gets lots of Internet orders these days... And has added a night shift to keep up. Some of the veteran lefse rollers can roll 135 rounds an hour. The less experienced start at about 50 or 60.

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