Navajo fry bread #3

6 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
3 cups Flour
3 tablespoons Lard (or veg. shortening)
3 teaspoons Baking powder
½ teaspoon Salt
¾ cup Water

Directions

From: Arizona Cookbook.

Measure dry ingredients into deep mixing bowl. Add lard and knead with hands until lard is in small pea size pieces. Add warm (not hot) water and knead with hands until dough is smooth and does not stick to sides of bowl. Knead at least 5 minutes. Cover with dish towel.

Place in warm place and let rest for not less than 30 minutes.

Melt enough lard in heavy 9" skillet so there is about one inch liquid depth. Heat for deep fat frying. A small piece of dough when dropped in will rise immediately to surface.

Tear off a piece of dough about ⅔ of tennis ball. Pat and shape into a 6-8-inch diameter and ¼ inch thick. Poke a hole in center with finger. Drop into hot fat, turning only once so that each side is a light golden brown.

Serve warm. Sprinkle top with sugar, powdered sugar, cinnamon, honey, jam, refried beans.

Submitted By JOYCE MONSCHEIN On 06-13-95

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