Fire Bread

Each year the Mountain Man Rendezvous we attend, we hope they will serve "Fire Bread", then name youngest dubbed it when he saw it being made over the campfire there. They ran out of it this year before we tasted it, so we had to make some at home. We ate Hawthorne berry and Elderberry jam on them made my the Mountain Man Leprechaun.

I searched the internet for an authentic recipe and chose this one to try.

NATIVE AMERICAN FRY BREAD RECIPES

4 cups flour

2 tbsp. baking powder

1 tsp. salt

1/2 cup shortening (I used oil)

1 cup warm water

Mix flour, baking powder and salt. Gradually add in the shortening and water. Add only enough water to make dough stick together. Knead dough until smooth, make into fist-sized balls. Cover them with a towel for 10 minutes then pat them out into circles about the size of a pancake. Fry in hot cooking oil in cast iron skillet until brown on both sides. Drain on paper towels, serve with jam.