Native American Fry Bread

Description

Ingredients

• 5 lb flour
• 6 cup lukewarm water
• 2 pkt or 2 tablespoons powdered yeast
• 1/2 cup Sugar
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/2 cup milk (liquid or powdered)
• 1 cup oil

Procedures

• Add water to a large bowl.
• Add yeast to water; stir until dissolved.
• Add Sugar, salt, milk and oil.
• Stir until dissolved.
• Add flour, 2 - 3 cups at a time and mix.
• Keep adding flour until it is all in.
• It gets thick.
• Knead to finish the mixing.
• Knead until it stays together;
• not shiny or hard, but it will stick to the fingers.
• Cover with waxed paper and tuck it in around the ball.
• Cover entire bowl with a towel and let rise 30 minutes.
• Remove wax paper.
• oil hands, sprinkle the top of the ball with a little flour and re-knead.
• Knead until it is no longer sticking to hands or bowl.
• Heat 48 ounces of oil to 365 F.
• Test oil - make a golf ball-sized ball, put in oil.
• If the ball rises to the surface of the oil quickly, it is ready.
• Take another piece of dough, about the size of a tennis ball and pull it out thin.
• Put a hole in the middle to keep it from bubbling up with air.
• Brown each side for 1 minute, until evenly brown.
• Shake of excess oil.