Apache Bread Recipes

APACHE CHEESE BREAD

Steps:

• Cut the top of the bread off reserving the top.
• Hollow out the inside.
• Combine remaining ingredients and mix well.
• Fill the bread with the cheese mixture.
• Replace the top.
• Place on a cookie sheet and bake in a 350 degree oven for one hour and 10 minutes.
• Serve with tortilla chips.

APACHE BREAD

Steps:

• Mix all ingredients together except bread.
• Cut center out of bread (like a canoe).
• Pat mixture into the loaf.
• Bake on 375 degrees for about 45 minutes.

APACHE FRY BREAD

Steps:

• Mix flour, baking powder, and salt together in a large bowl. Slowly add in the water, a little at a time, using a fork to blend until the mixture forms into dough. Knead the dough until all the lumps are gone about 5 minutes. Cover with plastic wrap and let the dough rest about 1 hour.
• Meanwhile, melt the lard in a Dutch oven over high heat. When it just begins to smoke, drop a small piece of dough into the oil. If it quickly rises to the top, the oil is hot enough to begin frying.
• Take a piece of dough and roll it into a golf ball-sized ball. Stretch the dough into a disk-like shape as you would a pizza dough. When you have a piece ready to go, carefully place the dough into the oil and let it brown on 1 side about 1 1/2 minutes and then turn it over to brown the other side for another 1 1/2 minutes. Remove the fry bread from the oil and let it drain on paper towels until cool. Enjoy fry bread by sprinkling it with chili, honey, or powdered sugar.

APACHE BREAD DIP

Steps:

• 1. Cut top of bread off, scoop out insides of bread until a shell of about 1/2 inch on sides and bottom remains. Set bread and top aside.
• 2. Combine rest of ingredients and mix well. This will be a very stiff mixture.
• 3. Scoop mixture into bread. Replace top of bread.
• 4. Place on cookie sheet and bake uncovered, at 350 degrees for 1 hour and 10 minutes. Remove top and serve with bread pieces, Fritos, tortilla chips, pita chips or your favorite cracker or dipper. Tear off bread rim and eat as dip gets lower.