Instructions: Whisk flour, baking powder and salt together. Cut in Crisco as for pie crust.

Mix in cold water gradually until soft dough is made. Knead a few times. Press or
roll dough to 1/4" thickness. Form in desired shape-see below. Drop into 360F oil and fry until brown on both sides. Drain on paper towels and serve hot with
cinnamon and sugar mixture, honey, brush with garlic butter, or make Indian taco-see below.

Serves 12.
If not serving immediately, may be kept warm short time by placing on paper towel-covered baking sheet in 200F oven. Dont put toppings on until just before serving.

In Arizona, fry bread is known as Indian fry bread; handful of dough is stretched and rolled to thickness of 1/4" and 8-10" in diameter; it usually served with sugar and cinnamon. - In New Mexico and a few other places, fry bread is called sopa-pillas; dough is stretched and rolled to 1/4 inch thickness. Then cut into ectangles or diamonds about 3-4" on a side.

Sopapillas are usually served with honey.

In Northwest, elephant ears are formed by stretching handful of dough into irregular rectangle approx 8" on a side and are dusted w/powdered sugar.

In southern US they are cut into rounds a little larger than donut hole size; served w/honey and are called honey balls.

In Ottawa they shape fry bread like beaver tail and brush it w/garlic butter or sprinkle w/sugar and cinnamon mixture. There are other names and shapes in
different areas.

For an Indian taco, an 8-10" disk of cooked fry bread is topped w/chili beans, minced onions, shredded cheese, chopped lettuce and diced tomatoes, topped w/guacamole and/or sour cream. Salsa is usually provided as a condiment.

Almost all fry bread is made from quick bread recipe similar to 1 above. In Italian communities, however, yeast bread dough is generally used and is called zepole. Its shaped as desired and fried in 360F oil.

In Netherlands, oillie bollen is made by using sweet yeast dough and adding raisins or other dried fruit (yep, that fruitcake crap!) before shaping and frying. We usually just dropped it by big spoonfuls then dusted with powdered sugar after draining on paper towels for a couple minutes.

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