Fried dough is a North American food associated with outdoor food stands in carnivals, fairs, and seaside resorts (though it can be made at home). It is made by deep-fat-frying a portion of risen yeast dough. It is usually served sprinkled with powdered sugar and cinnamon or topped with fruit sauce. The dough acquires an irregular, bubbly appearance from being fried.
Fried dough is also known as elephant ears,frying saucers, and Indian fry bread.
In Canada, Fried dough is almost universally known as a Beaver Tail. Although this is a brand name of a chain of outdoor food stands, it is a generic term as well. The first Beaver Tail restaurant opened in Ottawa more than 25 years ago, and now has more than 130 locations around the world, including Costa Rica, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Scotland and the United States.
Funnel cake is a somewhat similar food, but is made with an unleavened batter and shaped by being poured through a funnel.
External links
SERTOMA (service organization) (http://www.decaturnet.org/sertoma/EearsBKJ.htm) club site with photo of "elephant ear"
Fun-food Specialist's website (http://www.ffs.com.my/products/otherpro.html) showing photo of an "elephant ears/frying saucer" in a fryer
The tail acts as a rudder while swimming, as a prop for standing upright, as a lever when dragging tree logs, and as a noise maker for producing a warning signal when it is slapped on the water.
Each beaver pond is inhabited by one beaver family: two adults and usually 2-4 kits (very young beavers) and the yearlings from the previous year's litter.
The beaver eats aquatic plants (including pond weeds, water-lilies, and cattails) and the cambium (the soft tissue in which new wood and bark grow) of hardwood trees, including birch, aspen, willow, cottonwood, and alder.
The current beaver population has been estimated to be 10 to 15 million; there may have originally been ten times that many beavers in North America before the days of the fur trade.
One of the national symbols of Canada, the beaver is depicted on the Canadian five-cent piece and was on the first Canadian postage stamp, the Three Penny Beaver.
The romance of the beaver; being the history of the beaver in the western hemisphere, by A. Radclyffe Dugmore.
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