We call those Scones, the pioneer kind, not the English kind. I roll them out with a rolling pin, then let them set for a few min. then re roll. They are good with Chil on them, with cheese, lettuce and tomatoes sour cream, etc...these are called Indian Tacos.  When all my kids were home, I would bake 7 loafs of bread a day, and one loaf would be made into scones.

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Hi, I love fried dough too..Do like the Portuguese do and pull off a piece and gently stretch all around with your fingers then fry and coat with granulated sugar...YUM, Yum..They have long lines for these at all the feasts..My mom used to make them..We loved them..I also made for my kids "donuts" using refrigerated biscuits and cut them in 4 each one and fried them and added granulated sugar and gave each one a paper bag with some in it..They loved their own individual bag of "donuts"...

I live in New Mexico.  Your request for fried dough sounds like our Indian Fry Breads or the New Mexican Sopapillas. 

 

I don't make them myself because I live alone.  I get sopapillas ('little pillows') at NEW Mexican restaurants.  They are not Mexican, but NEW Mexican.  They are nice little puffed squares of fried dough.  You drizzle them with honey to offset the heat of the chile dishes.  Some places stuff them with Carne Adovada as an entree.

 

The Indians make fry bread.  It can be eaten with powdered sugar as a sweet treat or it can be ordered as either a Navajo Taco or an Indian Taco.  Then it is served flat topped with ground cooked beef, lettuce, chopped tomato etc.

 

As I said, I don't make them for myself, but I do eat them in restaurants or from the Indian Village at our state fair. 

 

There are web sites where you can get the recipes.  You can order sopapilla mixes on line too.  You might want to try:  Buenofoods.com

 

 

 

 

You probably figured it out by now......

But this has been a family favourite in my husbands family since his grandmother had it as a child.

 

You use bread dough. It can be made in the bread machine as you did it, from scratch, or you can use the thawed frozen bread dough bought in stores.

 

Form a small golfball sized ball and flatten it out as much as you can. Then put a hole in the middle of it, just enough to tear the dough.  Then fry it in crisco on the stove and flip it over when the bottom is browned.

 

Butter it and put jam on it and be prepared to go to heaven.  When I first had it after meeting my husband I thought they were nuts.  But if they are, I am, because it's so good!  LOL

 

The dough will still puff up a bit when you fry it, but as long as you flatten it out nice and thin and put that hole in the middle of it, it won't puff up as badly.

here is a good link for fried dough .. they are called beavertails ..http://www.razzledazzlerecipes.com/canada/beaver-tails.htm

you can also google toutons ..

hope this helps

 

Sounds wonderful!  Is it anything like Hushpuppies?

Here is the recipe for Indaian Fry Bread

3c flour

1c flour

1 1/4t baking powder

1/2t salt

1 1/3c warm water

oil

 

Mix 3c flour, baking powder and salt. Add warm water, mix well. Add 1c flour and kneed until dough is soft but not sticky. Stretch and pat dough till thin. Tear off one peice at a time and drop into hot oil. Brown on both sides. Drain on paper towels. Enjoy warm with butter or powdered sugar.