Recipe - Osage Fry Bread

4 cup Allpurpose flour
2 teaspoon Salt
1 tablespoon +1 tsp Baking powder
1 tablespoon Shortening; , melted
2 cup Milk; , lukewarm
Shortening for deep frying

Sift flour, salt and baking powder into bowl. Stir in shortening and milk.
Knead lightly to gather dough into ball. Roll out dough on lightly floured
board. Cut into diamond shapes. Cut small slit in the center of each
diamond.

Heat shortening in deep fryer to 370 deg. F. When dropping diamondshaped
dough into hot oil, stretch the dough a little bit lengthwise, and pull
open the slit in the center. Fry 2 or 3 at a time until golden on both
sides. Drain on paper towels.

Typed by Carolyn Cloe

Drizzle honey onto bread when eating.
Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #882 by c4@groupz.net on Nov 03, 1997