Fry bread

One of my favorite treats is fried bread. It is super easy and delicious.

Oh so yummyand this is my dinner most nights.

It is from many early 16th and 17th century cook books. For the average house wife you never ate bread you baked on the same day. You also didn't bake bread everyday. You would usually bake enough to get you to the next baking day. For some families this might be every 5-15 days. This is partly why they made a hard crusted bread, to help preserve what was on the inside. However if you are baking every 8 to 15 days you are still going to have a very stale bread, or even spoiled bread by those last few days. Here is how they would use that bread to the very last stale bit.

1. Melt butter in a frying pan and place your bread in the pan. Let it fry until it is golden brown and flip it.
2. If needed add more butter, and a little bit (or a lot of bit) apple cider vinegar. And let fry until it is golden brown again.
3. Plate it and sprinkle with salt or sugar. You can also top it with tuna, sautéed onions, spinach, sorrel, chicken salad, ham salad, or whatever intrigues you and enjoy.

Or just sprinkle with sugar or salt

Easy, delicious, and good way to use bread even if it is stale. Our Ancestors hardly wasted much.