On Mar 27, 6:56*am, Timo > wrote:
> On Wednesday, 27 March 2013 21:22:33 UTC+10, James Elbrecht *wrote:
>
> > If anyone called them featherbeds, do you know where the name came
> > from? * * *It is supposedly a handed down recipe-- but I'm curious
> > about whether it came from the English, Irish, German, Canadian,
> > Quaker, ?Native American?- or 'NY redneck' branch.
>
> There are breads like this from Eastern Europe, usually called "langos" or similar (from the Hungarian name). E.g.,http://www.netcooks.com/recipes/Sand...an.Langos.html
>
> Similar is found throughout Central Asia, with Turkish, Caucasian, Kazakh, Mongolian, etc. versions:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boortsog
>
> Also Indian puri.
>
> Wikipedia tells me there is a Navaho version, which I had never heard of befohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frybread

Navajo Frybread is to die for ... Probably where the whole fried bread
idea came from. ;-). At OKC's Arts festival, they serve Frybread as a
base for strawberry shortcake, sort of. Scrumptious! You can find
recipes easily. Mine, fairly authentic it was claimed, has a combo of
flour and cornmeal.

N.