Bannock Bread or Indian Fry Bread

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Ingredients:

6 cups flour
3 Tbs. baking powder
1 1/2 tsp. salt
2 1/2 cups water

Directions:

Heat oven to 350° Stir together; flour, baking powder and salt. Gradually add water, (if dough is too dry add more water).
Knead until dough is not sticky.
Grease a large baking pan, spread dough in pan and bake 35 minutes.

Serve hot with chokecherry jelly and thin sliced fried potatoes, beef from a roast, sliced thin before cooking and then fried.
Peppermint tea or coffee is usually served with this meal.

(can be fried stove top in a skillet as well)

This is a traditional meal for our people.

Earl Old Person, Chief
Chief of the Blackfeet Nation.