On 3/27/2013 9:25 PM, Nancy2 wrote:
> 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. ;-).

It probably is to die for; look at the incidence of heart disease among
the Navajo.


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Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

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