Lefse Krumkake appears as a signature dish in 1 United States cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Lefse and krumkake · Minneapolis
Lefse is a paper-thin Norwegian potato flatbread rolled around butter and sugar; krumkake is a waffle-iron cone of vanilla-cardamom batter, often piped full of cream and eaten with coffee.
Norwegian and Swedish immigration to Minnesota peaked between 1880 and 1920; by 1900 Minneapolis-Saint Paul held the largest Norwegian-American population outside Oslo. The lefse and krumkake tradition came with them. Ingebretsen's Nordic Marketplace opened on East Lake Street in 1921 as a Norwegian meat shop and has run the city's defining Scandinavian bakery counter ever since. The store still sells lefse rolling pins, krumkake irons and the cardamom-scented sandbakkelse tins for home baking. Saint Olaf College in Northfield runs an annual Christmas Lutefisk and Lefse Dinner.
Where to eat in Minneapolis:
- Ingebretsen's Nordic Marketplace