Share the Family Recipes!

Several years ago, I started a cookbook project, with the intent to compile recipes from each of Dell and Pearl's children and their families. Several recipes were collected and I began researching the options for having them published . . . and it was more time-consuming and expensive than I anticipated . . . then all the recipes got stuck in a drawer and thought about less and less.

Until now. Who needs another book on a shelf? We're going online! I am still adding all the recipes I was sent years ago, but it's a start. (Notice the recipes submitted from kids who are now teens?) And I'd love to continue adding! So if you have a recipe to add to our family cookbook, please send it to me in an email and I will get it right up! Feel free to add any anecdotes attached to the dish too. Photos would be great as well!

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Happy eating!

Hopi Fry Bread

Rosalie Robison Risk

4 cups white flour

1 1/2 teaspoons salt

5 teaspoons baking powder

1 1/3 to 1 1/2 cups water

Shortening for frying

Mix flour, baking powder and salt together. Add water gradually while stirring with a fork to make soft dough. Stir until flour is absorbed. Cover bowl with clean towel and let set 30 minutes. Shape into 16 egg-sized balls(adding flour as needed.) With rolling pin, shape into 4x1/2' disks. Heat 1 1/2' shortening in heavy frying pan till about to smoke. Fry 3-4 pieces at a time till brown on both sides. Drain on paper sack. Serves 6-8, unless you're feeding a Navajo! Good with honey or just plain as bread with meal.
Source: I don't remember where I got this recipe, but when we lived in Maine, we had a Navajo Indian missionary serving in Bangor. When he came to dinner, he said they tasted just like home on the reservation, and I could never make enough to fill him up!

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