On Friday, May 30, 2008 08:26, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> See: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funnel_cake>
> Whether called "fried dough" or "funnel cake" it's something neither my
> wife nor I can pass up. We always share one if we chance across it.
> Usually served with powdered sugar but often with something else such as
> cinnamon and sugar (in crystal form). Around here (upstate New York and
> near the Pennsylvania border) it's funnel cake. In the Boston area you
> only find fried dough. If I remember correctly (always a dangerous
> assumption)even the Miccosukee indians (south Florida) serve a similar
> concoction called fried pumpkin bread.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
Actually funnel cakes and fried dough (elephant ears) are two different
things. Fried dough is a yeast dough like bread, funnel cakes are a batter
like cake.
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