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Frybread (also spelled fry bread) is a dish of the indigenous people of North America that is a flat dough bread, fried or deep-fried in oil, shortening, or lard.. Made with simple ingredients, generally wheat flour, water, salt, and sometimes baking powder, frybread can be eaten alone or with various toppings such as honey, jam, powdered sugar, venison, or beef.
A traditional kind of Icelandic bread that is most often eaten in the Christmas season. [9] Originating from northern Iceland but now eaten throughout the entire country, [9] it consists of round, very thin flat cakes with a diameter of about 15 to 20 cm (5.9 to 7.9 in), decorated with leaf-like, geometric patterns and fried briefly in hot fat ...
The earliest known recipes for zalabiya comes from the 10th century Arabic cookbook Kitab al-Tabikh. [3] [4] In the old Al-Baghdadi book of recipes of the Arabs; the dough was poured through a coconut shell. This style of fritter is similar to the Indian jelabi and a 16th-century recipe from German cuisine for strauben made using a funnel. [5]
That could look like shrimp & sausage gumbo, Southern baked mac & cheese, low-country collard greens, and corn fritters, or it could be jerk chicken, rice & peas, maduros, and Jamaican oxtail stew ...
Other languages do offer hints of European influence, however, for example Navajo: bááh dah díníilghaazhh "bread that bubbles" (i.e. in fat), where "bááh" is a borrowing from Spanish: pan for flour and yeast bread, as opposed to the older Navajo: łeesʼáán which refers to maize bread cooked in hot ashes [7] Likewise, Alutiiq alatiq comes from the Russian: ола́дьи, romanized ...
Fried dough is a North American food associated with outdoor food stands in carnivals, amusement parks, fairs, rodeos, and seaside resorts. "Fried dough" is the specific name for a particular variety of fried bread made of a yeast dough; see the accompanying images for an example of use on carnival-booth signs.
Dough fritters are known in Mediterranean cuisine from the work of Cato the Elder who included a recipe with the name "balloons" in his book De Agri Cultura, which was written in the second century BC. In that recipe, flour and cheese balls were fried and served with a spread made of honey and poppy seeds.
Early versions of apple fritters appear in Martha Washington’s Booke of Cookery, a manuscript dating to the 17th century, which includes various fritter recipes common in colonial American kitchens. [24] An apple fritter recipe typically includes a batter made from flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, milk, eggs, and a bit of oil.