"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 of the picture, though now, 2006, she is 96) 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 4 lefse. To serve, butter goes on first, then cinnamon and sugar are mixed in one container and sprinkled on.**

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MAMA'S CHRISTMAS BY THE CUPFUL RECIPE

A heaping cup of happiness

2 cups of love and caring

1 of understanding

1 of joyful sharing

A level cup of wisdom

1 of artful living

1 of thoughtful insight

1 of selfless giving

Mix ingredients together prayerfully.

Toss a little flair into it!

Serve to everyone you know and anyone who wouldn't have a blessed Christmas otherwise.

Top with a prayer.

May every measure of happiness and blessing be yours and for all those around you this Christmas Time!

MOM'S CORN PUDDING

1 can cream style corn

2 eggs (well beaten)

1 pt. milk

2 heaping Tablespoons flour

2 Tablespoons sugar

2 Tablespoons butter

Mix well, put in casserole dish and back in moderate oven for 45 minutes, or use microwave; to brown, broil in oven if you use a microwave.

Submitted by Pearl Ginther, which was her Mama's recipe, a dish that is delicious and everyone will be sure to want seconds of!

IMPOSSIBLE PIE

4 eggs

1/2 c. margarine (melted)

1/2 c. flour

2 c. milk 1 c. cocoanut

1 tsp. vanila

1/2 tsp. baking powder

Mix in the blender altogether. Pour into a 10-inch pie dish. Bake at 350 degrees for one hour.

Submitted by Pearl Ginther

MY MOM'S SYRUP

1 c. sour cream

1 c. brown sugar

3/4 c. granulated sugar

Put all ingredients in a sauce pan and boil very carefully so it doesn't bubble over. Let it get a little thick. Ready to put on Swedish or Norwegian pancakes.

Submitted by Pearl Ginther (this is better than any store-bought syrup, and everyone who has once tasted it will agree!)

MAMA'S NORWEGIAN PANCAKES (CREPE RECIPE)

1 and 1/2 c. milk or 2% milk

2 Tablespoons vegetable oil or butter

3 eggs

1 and 1/4 c. whole-wheat flour

1/4 tsp. salt

1 and 1/2 c. all-purpose flour

Beat eggs and add shortening, milk, salt and flour. Mix until batter is smoothe. Ladle about 1/4 cup batter in small frying pan to make a very thin pancake (crepe). Sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon, or sugar alone. Can be filled with fruit as desired, or add whipped cream. Mama's brown-sugar and sour cream syrup is the best syrup for these crepes. To make a Swedish pancake, add more flour to make a thicker batter. To make cornmeal crepes, add 1/2 c. cornmeal. For chocolate crepes add 1/4 c. sugar and cocoa to taste (to your satisfaction) and 1 and 1'2 tsp. vanilla.

Submitted by Pearl Ginther

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, Pearl's eldest daughter

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MAMA BERGIT'S ICE BOX CAKE

1 can pineapple, well drained.

1/2 cup butter, creamed well

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

1 cup whipped cream

1 box Graham crackers (2 lb.)

Roll out half box of crackers. Add butter, eggs (whites beaten first, then put in yolks and mix well in with cake mix), and sugar. Put in pan and level it out and pack it down good. Now add the pineapple (without juice) and cover with whipped cream. Roll out remaining half box of Graham crackers and level over top and pat down good again! Set in a cold place to chill, then enjoy!

--Submitted by Daughter Estelle Rangen

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MISSIONARY PANCAKES

2 Cups flour (unsalted)

2 Cups fine, unsalted corn flour (not meal)

3 tbs. sugar

1 tsp salt (level)

8 tsp baking powder

Liquids:

3 eggs (beaten)

3 1/2 Cup milk

1/4 Cup oil to 1/3 Cup

Submitted by Dan Templeton, New Tribes Mission, Jacutinga, Brazil, husband to Grandma's granddaughter, Beth Taylor-Templeton

Some more "food for thought":

"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.

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Yulekake (or, Yulekage)

Recipe by Agnes Hagen, Member of Pearl's church

Add together in a bowl:

1 cup likewarm milk

1/2 cup sugar

1 tsp salt

1/2 tsp powdered cardamon

Crumble the cardamon in the mixture

1 packet of yeast

Stir it around and around

Add 1 beaten egg

1 tablespoon margarine or lard

Mix with a spoon

Add 3 & 1/4 or 3 & 1/2 cups flour

1/4 chopped candied fruit

1/2 cup raisins

Mix and knead it and put on a cookie sheet. After it has raised, bake at 350 degrees for 30 or 40 minutes. Some put melted butter on the top afterwards to make the yulekake shine.

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WE REGRET WE HAVE NOT UPDATED THIS PAGE IN A LONG WHILE! WE WANT TO INCLUDE A GALAXY OF SPARKLING RECIPES FOR ROMMEGROT (SOUR CREAM PORRIDGE), SUCH AS MICROWAVE ROMMEGROT, PAN-FRIED ROMMEGROT, RAW ROMMEGROT, BRAISED ROMMEGROT, SHISH KEBAB ROMMEGROT, AND THE BEST WAY TO OVEN-DRY ROUNDS OF ROMMEGROT THAT CAN SERVE AS FLOTATION DEVICES IN CASE OF A FORCED LANDING ON WATER. ALSO, LOOK FOR SUCH DELECTABLES AS RAISED PANCAKES (SERVED ON NORWAY'S FERRY BOATS, WHICH HELP KEEP THEM AFLOAT), 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.

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

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"Long Live the Rommegrot!"

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!

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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!

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You can paper up your wall,

use some rommegrot, you all!

Spread it thin, or spread it thick,

like epoxy it can stick!

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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, deceased from eating too much rommegrot

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"A Recipe for the Good Life"

1. A heaping cup of kindness

2. Two cups of love and caring

3. One cup of understanding

4. One cup of joyful sharing

5. A level cup of patience

6. A level cup of thoughtful insight

7. One cup of gracious listening

8. One cup of sweet forgiveness

Mix ingredients together, toss in smiles and laughter and compliments. Serve to everybody you know! Philippians 414 (KJ): "I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus."

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*No Omtrint="No guess"

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

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