On 3/27/2013 9:55 AM, Nancy Young wrote:
> 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

They might bear some resemblance to Mexican sopapillas, which are
usually eaten dipped in honey etc. I seem to have heard them called
"sofa pillows" :-)

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Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

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