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Pizza dough, eh of troy? Sounds good, and it reminds me of the extra strips of pie crust my mom would bake, sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar. [yum tongue]
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Do we still have a Food Thread Police? [I hope not. I'm just askin'.]
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Since we've now moved on to miscellaneous sweetened dough products, I can mention that as a child in the mid-70s, when there were not many from the subcontinent in the town where I grew up, I used to describe jilebis as "Indian donuts". For the ball type of donut, as opposed to the ring type, one could substitute gulab jamun, little spheres of deep fried goo, tasting as if they are only 40% dough, the other 60% sugar. Indian sweets definitely are, too much so for my taste, I still shudder whenever I think about kulfi.
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Pretty soon everyone was dunkin' fifes  LOL! And so was Sheriff Andy Taylor when they were down at the Mayberry swimmin' hole and he dunked Barney! 
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And then there are sopapillas. Bits of deep fried flour tortilla dough sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar or plain dunked in honey [babiando aquí]
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Yes, Helen and FB, we have this treat around here, especially at the twice-yearly festivals held in Little Italy, where it's called 'fried dough'.
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> ...it's called 'fried dough'How singularly uninventive.
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>>...it's called 'fried dough'
>How singularly uninventive.
Fried dough lives.
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i love indian sweets! 74th Street in Jackson Heights any one remember the Patty Duke show "all the sites a girl could see from Jackson Heights? is now a little india market place, complete with a sweet shop...
The vegetable stores feature fruits & vegetable i don't recognize, as well as several varities of things i do recognize, but usually only see one variety of.. (i think of banana's -- most stores carry 2 kinds.. they carry 6 or more.. if you count the 2 or 3 kinds of plantains.)
Yes, they are very sweet, and often gooey, dripping with honey or a liquid glaze, but they are small.. and if you limit your self to one or two very small ones... they are sweet and creamy and cool the palate after all the heat of a dinner!
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>byb on fastnachts: . When they come out of the fat (lard is the classical fat) they are immediately sprinkled with granulated sugar, sometimes with cinnamon sugar. Most delicious.
They're not always sprinkled with sugar-- we usually get (or make) plain ones and eat them split and spread with "Turkey syrup" or "King's Syrup," which is similar to slightly thickened pancake syrup.
Interesting you should mention Kutztown. It's only 20 minutes from my house (around here, we reckon distance by how long it takes to get there, not the number of miles), and I attend Kutztown University. Never been to the Fastnacht Festival though-- in fact, this is the first I've heard of it! I must look into it sometime...
In answer to the question of the original Fastnacht post, I'm from Berks County, PA, which is in the southeastern part of the state. I live about half an hour from Reading and an hour and a half from Philly. (Reckoning by time again!)
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