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.

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Ingebretsen's Nordic Marketplace ★ 4.6

$BakeryLongfellow Powderhorn

Ingebretsen's on East Lake Street has cured Scandinavian deli items in Minneapolis since 1921. Located in Longfellow Powderhorn. Open mon-sat 09:00-17:30.

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