On 3/27/2013 7:22 AM, Jim Elbrecht wrote:
> My wife's family call them featherbeds. They used a slightly
> sweetened version of their heavy white bread dough [with milk and
> Crisco but no egg] that had been made the day before and refrigerated
> until an hour or two before the oil was heated up.
>
> Then the tricky part was to tear off pieces and pull them into
> paper-thin bits before dunking in hot oil.
>
> These are closest I see out there-
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St...ried_Dough.jpg

Looks like fried pizza dough! Wonderful stuff. I never heard of
anything like featherbeds, though.

nancy