Plain View Farm, Bryant, SD

Mama's No Omtrint Cusine & Stadem Family Cooking*

"I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." John 10:10

Pearl Stadem-Ginther (AGE 89, at that time) Making Three Batches of Lefse for Christmas To Teach it to her Granddaughter!

Please link to Mama Bergit Stadem's recipes for lefse! Otherwise, Daughter Pearl Ginther's choice of the best lefse recipe for her is as follows:

POTATO LEFSE

4 C finely mashed or riced, boiled potatoes (baking type, not red or new potatoes)

1/4 C margarine, meltedi

1/4 C milk (you can use half evaporated milk & half potato water)

Scant tsp. salt

1 to 1 1/2 C flour

While potatoes are hot, beat in margarine melted with milk and salt. Cool thoroughly. Work in flour and knead until smooth and manageable. Form into a roll and cut into about 9 equal pieces. Working on a well-floured pastry cloth, roll out one piece at a time to a large thin circle, using a lefse rolling pin or pastry sticking cover on a regular rolling pin. Lift very carefully onto a hot (about 500 degrees) griddle and bake until the underside is lightly browned in spots. Turn and bake second side until it has light brown spots. Remove and stack on a terry dish towel, topping it with another towel. When there are about 9 in a stack, start a new one. When they are partially cooled, set them in stacks of 3 or 4 on the cupboard to thoroughly cool. To freeze, fold into quarters and stack a few (as many as you'd use at one time) and package in plastic bags or other airtight wrap. Ten pounds of potatoes make somewhere around 40 lefse. To serve, butter goes on first, then cinnamon and sugar are mixed in one container and sprinkled on.**

NORWEGIAN BUTTER COOKIES

1/2 C butter (no substitutes)

2 eggs (hard boil - use yolks only)

1 C white sugar

1 C flour

1/2 tsp vanilla

Preheat oven to 375. Hard boil eggs, separate and use yolks only. Cream butter and egg yolks. Beat well. Blend in sugar, flour and vanilla. Roll into balls or drop by teaspoonful on cookie sheet and bake 10-12 minutes. Makes 2 dozen.

Submitted by Gloria Ginther-Brown

MISSIONARY PANCAKES

2 C flour (unsalted)

2 C fine, unsalted corn flour (not meal)

3 tbs. sugar

1 tsp salt (level)

8 tsp baking powder

Liquids:

3 eggs (beaten)

3 1/2 C milk

1/4 C oil to 1/3 C

Mix dry with liquid ingredients in a bowl (or stiff sombrero or straw hat with a plastic bag liner!), pour and fry on heated stone for a griddle or in a pan if available. Pancakes can be served on a big leaf with butter and syrup, sprinkled sugar, or local wild honey if available. Makes plenty pancakes--(with tongue in cheek) Editors

Submitted by Dan Templeton, New Tribes Mission, Jacutinga, Brazil

"When they place you in the coffin and someone says the last "Amen," tell me, where will your soul be, tell me, friend, what then?"--Dan Templeton, from a dream he had.

PLEASE RETURN SOON FOR RECIPES FOR ROMMEGROT (SOUR CREAM PORRIDGE), MICROWAVE ROMMEGROT, RAISED PANCAKES (SERVED ON NORWEGIAN FERRIES), NORWEGIAN BURGERS, AND LUTEFISK! YOU ARE WELCOME TO SUBMIT YOUR OWN NORWEGIAN RECIPES TO THIS PAGE, AS STADEMS OR "HONORARY STADEMS"! WE WOULD ALSO APPRECIATE ANY BITS OF WISDOM OR LORE YOU TREASURE THAT COULD BRIGHTEN OUR LIVES AND THIS PAGE AS WELL. WE PRESENTLY HAVE RECIPES FOR PEARL'S MOCK APPLE PIE, DARK WAFFLES, OATMEAL CAKE OR BARS, PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES, MT. RAINIER PANCAKES (BY JERRY GINTHER), MAMA BERGIT'S BURNT SUGAR CAKE, DATE AND NUT BALLS, LEMON SQUARES, TELEPHONE BARS, BURNT SUGAR SYRUP, NORWEGIAN FLAT BREAD, AND IMPOSSIBLE PIE (WHICH IS ENGLISH, BUT FROM A COUNTRY COLONIZED THICKLY AND LONG BY VIKINGS!).

NOW FOR A POETIC TRIBUTE TO ROMMEGROT by RAGNAR TORGUFFSON (TO MUSIC OF "ENGLAND SWINGS LIKE A PENDULUM DO" by JOHNNY CASH):

"Rommegrot Swings!"

Pass the bowl of rommegrot,

eat it cold or eat it hot.

Pour on sugar, butter too,

And what you don't eat turns to glue!

REFRAIN: Norway slurps its rommegrot
from eldest Viking to a tot.

You don't need teeth to take a chew,

for what you don't eat turns to glue!

You can paper up your wall,

use some rommegrot, you all!

Spread it thin, or spread it thick,

like epoxy it can stick!

Who done thought up this strange dish?

It's as odd as you could wish.

Goop is what it seems to be,

Or if you're kind, call it "puree".

--By Ragnar Torguffson

NOW A SPECIAL TREAT: PAPA AND MAMA'S 50TH ANNIVERSARY CAKE!***

No Omtrint=Norse (Norwegian) meaning "No guess"

Lefse recipe from "I Am the Bread of Life," Recipes of Mountain View Lutheran Church Women, 1977

This Cake was baked by the same lady in Volga, SD, who baked a cake for President Truman. Besides the names of all the children, it featured Bryant Lutheran Church, and also the names of Bob and Arthur in gold who had gone to the Lord in January 1947 together in a plane crash.

Links to other sites on the Web:
Butterfly Productions
Mama Stadem's Quotables
Mama Bergit Stadem's Recipes

Copyright © 2001, Butterfly Productions, All Rights Reserved

Klarion@webtv.net

Plain View Farm, Bryant, SD

Mama's No Omtrint* Cusine & Stadem Family Cooking

"I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." John 10:10

Pearl Stadem-Ginther (AGE 89, at that time) Making Three Batches of Lefse for Christmas To Teach it to her Granddaughter!

Please link to Mama Bergit Stadem's recipes for lefse! Otherwise, Daughter Pearl Ginther's choice of the best lefse recipe for her is as follows:

POTATO LEFSE

4 C finely mashed or riced, boiled potatoes (baking type, not red or new potatoes)

1/4 C margarine, meltedi

1/4 C milk (you can use half evaporated milk & half potato water)

Scant tsp. salt

1 to 1 1/2 C flour

NORWEGIAN BUTTER COOKIES

1/2 C butter (no substitutes)

2 eggs (hard boil - use yolks only)

1 C white sugar

1 C flour

1/2 tsp vanilla

Submitted by Gloria Ginther-Brown

MISSIONARY PANCAKES

2 C flour (unsalted)

2 C fine, unsalted corn flour (not meal)

3 tbs. sugar

1 tsp salt (level)

8 tsp baking powder

Liquids:

3 eggs (beaten)

3 1/2 C milk

1/4 C oil to 1/3 C

Submitted by Dan Templeton, New Tribes Mission, Jacutinga, Brazil

"When they place you in the coffin and someone says the last "Amen," tell me, where will your soul be, tell me, friend, what then?"--Dan Templeton, from a dream he had.

NOW FOR A POETIC TRIBUTE TO ROMMEGROT by RAGNAR TORGUFFSON (TO MUSIC OF "ENGLAND SWINGS LIKE A PENDULUM DO" by JOHNNY CASH):

"Rommegrot Swings!"

eat it cold or eat it hot.

Pour on sugar, butter too,

And what you don't eat turns to glue!

from eldest Viking to a tot.

You don't need teeth to take a chew,

for what you don't eat turns to glue!

You can paper up your wall,

use some rommegrot, you all!

Spread it thin, or spread it thick,

like epoxy it can stick!

Who done thought up this strange dish?

It's as odd as you could wish.

Goop is what it seems to be,

Or if you're kind, call it "puree".

--By Ragnar Torguffson

NOW A SPECIAL TREAT: PAPA AND MAMA'S 50TH ANNIVERSARY CAKE!***

*No Omtrint=Norse (Norwegian) meaning "No guess"

**Lefse recipe from "I Am the Bread of Life," Recipes of Mountain View Lutheran Church Women, 1977

***This Cake was baked by the same lady in Volga, SD, who baked a cake for President Truman. Besides the names of all the children, it featured Bryant Lutheran Church, and also the names of Bob and Arthur in gold who had gone to the Lord in January 1947 together in a plane crash.

Klarion@webtv.net

Mama's No Omtrint Cusine & Stadem Family Cooking*