Tried my hand at Fry Bread.

[6518John]

I don’t think any of the tribes are going to extend me a membership invitation, but I think it came out pretty well. My son wolfed them down for breakfast slathered in fresh strawberry jelly. He even suggested these would be good covered in your sausage gravy!

I am going to have to roll my dough out much thinner for the next batch. These came out more like Fry Biscuits or hush puppies. They were still mighty good.

I had seen Fry Bread mentioned in a thread or two earlier in the week, so I thought, what the heck, will try it. Got a recipe off of Allrecipes—Simple Fry Bread.

 

[Rustyt1953]

My mom made English Fried Bread.

She would sprinkle water over bread slices (so as to not soak up as much grease) and lay them in a cast iron skillet with 1/4" of bacon grease and fry until the edges got a bit crispy.

She would cut them into strips and I would dip them in a soft boiled egg.

Simply marvelous.

 

[sigp220.45]

17 years on Indian reservations made me truly appreciate frybread. I make it sometimes, but no one makes it like old Navajo ladies.

[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2TgT-B9qLq8[/ame]

 

[snubbyfan]

Lisa has a frybread recipe. She'd make the dough, roll it out and I'd fry it in a cast iron skillet.
I liked it as is. She'd sprinkle it with some powdered sugar or put some jam on it.
If I ever find that recipe, I'm gonna try it with some sausage gravy.

 

[03hemi]

Is it the same thing as water bread?
That's all I've ever known as fried cornbread?
Doesn't sound the same.

 

[Ματθιας]

For best results fry them in lard not, vegetable oil. Use a rolling pin and roll them at most 8in round and about 1/4 in thick. it's basically a fried tortilla.

That recipe is a tortilla mix - just without the baking powder. Cook tortillas on a griddle.

Add a little bit of bacon grease to the dough for a bit of flavor, trust me on this!

 

[pharmer]

Best frybread I ever tasted was in some roadside cafe near Second Mesa in Arizona. Served with lamb, hominy and a giant green chile, out of this world good.
PS, "Smoke Signals" is one of my wife's (actually the whole house') favorite movies, not to be missed in this lifetime. Joe

 

[sigp220.45]

PS, "Smoke Signals" is one of my wife's (actually the whole house') favorite movies, not to be missed in this lifetime. Joe

I made it mandatory viewing for all new guys to the office.

 

[Mule Packer]

These came out more like Fry Biscuits or hush puppies. They were still mighty good.

They look great to me! I love fry bread. When you mentioned hush puppies, though, that also brought back great memories...hush puppies and sorghum. I haven't had hush puppies for over 50 years. I could eat a whole platter of them.

 

[rockquarry]

I'd never use lard for anything, but fry bread sounds very similar to a sopapilla. Is that right?

 

[Onomea]

I made it mandatory viewing for all new guys to the office.

I'd never seen it, but intrigued by the clip you posted, read some reviews and then watched it this afternoon.

Excellent movie.

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[Bullet Bob]

"I'd never use lard for anything,.."

Since your info at the top right doesn't say, I can't be sure. But if you're not from north of the Mason-Dixon line, I'll be surprised.

Lard is Love.

 

[rockquarry]

"I'd never use lard for anything,.."

Since your info at the top right doesn't say, I can't be sure. But if you're not from north of the Mason-Dixon line, I'll be surprised.

Lard is Love.

Foul stuff, even here in Texas. Use what you like as I speak only for myself.

 

[Rustyt1953]

The magic ingredient to my mom's biscuits and pie crusts was lard.

 

[otis24]

You have to roll them out thin and cut a slit in the middle.

 

[otis24]

Lard, butter, and powdered sugar are used to make cake frosting. Many people have eaten lard and not know it!

 

[LoboGunLeather]

Fry bread, sopapillas, donuts. All similar, all different.

My mother made fried bread using her regular raised bread dough, rolled out and cut into pieces, then fried in a skillet of hot oil. Tumble them in a bag with cinnamon and sugar. Served with a large glass of cold milk.

I have imitated Mom's effort using Pillsbury crescent roll dough. I am basically too lazy to mix bread dough from scratch like Mom always did. So far no complaints from the grandkids.

 

[Skeet 028]

Ain't any fried chicken like was cooked in lard. The black lady that used to watch my sister and I when we were kids made donuts cooked in lard put in a paper bag and shook up with cinnamon and sugar...after the fried chicken. Loved that lady. All of us(her kids and my sister and I) just couldn't hardly wait for 'um to be done. 5 kids could really eat of lot even if we were young

 

[Mule Packer]

The magic ingredient to my mom's biscuits and pie crusts was lard.

Many, many years ago when I was "playing cowboy," our foreman's mother was famous for her pie crusts...light and flaky. Her secret? Bear lard! Really. Every year, her husband would shoot a bear (we lived in an area that had one of the highest black bear populations in the lower 48) and she would render the fat into lard. She swore by it. It was pure white.