On 5 Feb 2005 18:16:53 GMT, Wayne Boatwright > wrote:

>On Sat 05 Feb 2005 11:12:45a, wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>
>> On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 23:46:29 GMT, "Dimitri" >
>> wrote:
>>
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>>>"Carol In WI" > wrote in message
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>>>> What is Indian fry Bread? Carol In WI
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>>>http://www.cooks.com/rec/doc/0,184,1...224205,00.html
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>>>Dimitri
>>>
>>>INDIAN FRY BREAD
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>> Otherwise known (at least in the Canadian North) as "bannock".
>> And yes, it was borrowed from the Orkney Islanders hired by the
>> Hudson's Bay Company to man the fur trading posts.
>>
>> Shirley Hicks
>> Toronto, Ontario
>>
>
>Here in Phoenix there is a place whose specialty is Indian Fry Bread.
>People I know rave about it. I tried it, but wasn't impressed. It seemed
>rather flavorless and doughy.

Basic bannock is a quick bread.There just isn't much flavour at all
(beyond the wheat flour, and that would depend on the grain used)
unless you add things to it. If you fry it in game fat, it takes on
some flavour that way So, beef tallow as an equivalent? Bacon fat?
Can also be a sourdough.

Shirley Hicks