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Beaver Tails (Canadian Fried Dough with Cinnamon Sugar)

Name: Beaver Tails (Canadian Fried Dough with Cinnamon Sugar)
Prep time: 66 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 76 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Canada
Ingredients: whole-wheat flour 250 g; all-purpose flour 100 g; sugar 30 g; instant yeast 6 g; fine salt 4 g; warm water 200 ml; milk 60 ml; vegetable oil 500 ml; ground cinnamon 10 g; sugar (coating) 100 g

Whole-wheat fried dough stretched into a flat tail shape, topped with cinnamon sugar.

76 minutes · 6 servings · Moderate

Stretched and fried at the national fair, these flat tails became a fixture of Ottawa street stalls within a couple of decades. The dough must be pulled thin enough to cook through before the outside burns, which is the whole skill, and the tail shape is decorative rather than useful. They are best eaten straight from the bag while the sugar is still melting.

Ingredients

whole-wheat flour250 g
all-purpose flour100 g
sugar30 g
instant yeast6 g
fine salt4 g
warm water200 ml
milk60 ml
vegetable oil500 ml
ground cinnamon10 g
sugar (coating)100 g

Directions

1
Mix flours, sugar, yeast, salt, water and milk; knead 8 minutes; rest 50 minutes.
2
Divide into 6 portions; stretch each into a flat oval tail shape.
3
Fry at 180C for 4 minutes per side until golden.
4
Brush with oil; coat with cinnamon-sugar.

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