Navajo Fry Bread4 cups of flour
1 tablespoon baking powders
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups warm water
1 cup vegetable shortening (or margarine ½)
Mix dry ingredients, knead till it forms soft but not sticky dough
Cover and let stand 15 minutes
Pull or pinch off egg sized pieces and stretch them out into ¼ inch thick rounds The Navajo's pokes a hole in the center of each dough to fry evenly.
Use hot “Cast Iron Skillets” to heat oil but not smoking
Fry the rounds one at a time
Two minutes on each side until golden then place on paper towels to drain
(This recipe is here because the cost of bread is outrageous. We are going to have to get back to the simple recipes using baking powders instead of yeast. Recipes that are simple, fast, cost effective and turn into more nutritionally made up for homes. You can use whole wheat baking flour, (or unbleached all-purpose flour.)
These are great plain with butter and honey or toco's i.e. http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2011/10/indian-fry-bread-and-indian-tacos/ THIS POST HAS THE PHOTO IN MAKING THE FRY BREAD ETC.
.......................................Here another cultures's bread
Flour Tortillas
2 cups flour
½ teaspoon salt
¼ cup shortening
½ cup warm water (hot for whole wheat) set aside a room temperature for 20-30 minutes, cover the made balls of dough, then roll out. (Their size rolling pens are the size of a big broom stick. I have that size unfinished dole stick that is my rolling pen. stack between pieces of wax paper
Serves: dozen 8 inch tortillas
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