Thread: Old Fashioned: Fry Breads / Campfire Breads /Flat Breads

Roy
What is "sordid" about hush puppies. I have them in some of the best restaurants in New Orleans

Originally Posted by rolodave

Roy
What is "sordid" about hush puppies. I have them in some of the best restaurants in New Orleans

Some accounts say that they were from the days of slavery here in the states, however other's digress. I have had them in a restaurant run by a couple of guys from New Orleans and they had really good food. If memory serves you could order your hush puppies either rolled into balls or dropped from a spoon so it was more rustic. I remember that the hush puppies that I had were balls and pretty good sized balls at that and they were very good.

Fry bread is a local staple. I make them every couple of months. Fried in lard is the key for frying..

A favorite and easy for camping is using frozen bread dough and deep frying it with our fish.

Back when my son was in Webelos ( Short for 'We Be Good Scouts' they had a picnic event and my son asked me to show a few trick things and I agreed to show 3.

One was cooking an egg in an orange peel in the coals.

The second was boiling water in a paper cup in the coals.

The last was baking bread on a stick over the coals. I cheated and used Pop'n Fresh French dough. All of his patrol got to sample the baked bread.

I got a big kick out of the adult naysayers about all three but especially the paper cup trick. While the lip will scorch you can pick any pieces out of the water and in fact I had some cocoa powder in another cup and I transferred the hot water to the second cup and after stirring it well my son drank the cocoa.

I have never seen the egg in an orange peel. First Nations used hide bags to make soup and heat water and in other regions woven baskets. I have used frozen dough for fry bread before. It works, it is never as good as from scratch but it’s still good.

Originally Posted by cudarunner

Some accounts say that they were from the days of slavery here in the states, however other's digress. I have had them in a restaurant run by a couple of guys from New Orleans and they had really good food. If memory serves you could order your hush puppies either rolled into balls or dropped from a spoon so it was more rustic. I remember that the hush puppies that I had were balls and pretty good sized balls at that and they were very good.

Hush puppies are a old stable in the south.
New Orleans style was small. My grandmother made large ones with a lot of onion.

Originally Posted by RezDog

I have used frozen dough for fry bread before. It works, it is never as good as from scratch but it’s still good.

Stays good in the cooler for an extended trip.

One year we wrapped the dough around thin mint girl scout cookies and that was an interesting experiment! LOL

Originally Posted by cudarunner

Navajo fry bread appears to have a very bitter/sweet background. Seems it was first concocted with what the US government gave them as they were forced off their land.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-...rybread-79191/

I've never made it but I have made hushpuppys which seem to have their own sordid history.

They were probably making it long before Kit Carson began his scorched earth policy with them. In the end they got all their land back plus a lot more. They are probably the only tribe to do well in the end.

Here is something similar to what you guys are talking about and a tradition in Newfoundland.

Bob

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4KsWeyusFs&t=3s