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Rating: 5 stars These are so good!! Anyone who says these aren't like the fair has either went to a really weird fair or they messed up the recipe. I have made these several times and they always turn out perfect. And people PLEASE stop rating recipes you've never tried. Thumb Up Helpful (221)

Rating: 3 stars This was not quite like what you get at the fair. All morning I played around with the recipe after semi-success on the first batch. For the best batch I did the following differently. I added about 3 Tbsp. of water to the dough to keep it from being tough. The oil was extremely too hot and so I lowered it to about 275 and cooked it for a little less than a minute per side(this was with the dough rolled to about 1/8 in thick). After frying it I brushed it with melted butter which enhanced the bread's flavor and helped the sugar to stick. I also doubled the amount of sugar used for the toping. Thumb Up Helpful (196)

Rating: 5 stars This is it!!!! I grew up in Indiana and at the state fair we ALWAYS had an elephant ear. Only difference may have that they lightly brushed them with melted butter before dousing them with cinnamon sugar. But surprisingly they taste fine without it and the sugar adheres well. Plus it's much better for us without the added butter. These fry up nicely with bubbles in the dough and everything. I'd decrease the amount of oil used for frying (I did mine in the iron skillet) since it gets a little splattery. Also, my frying time was about 10-15 seconds per side. So delicious! Thumb Up Helpful (130)

Rating: 5 stars These are the best! use this instead of the frybread recipes listed on allrecipes...you won't be sorry. Thumb Up Helpful (35)

Rating: 5 stars Great recipe! My Swiss father-in-law taught us a similar recipe his family used in Switzerland. Here, before Christmas, we would assemble grand kids in the kitchen. Set up the ironing board covered with several layers of paper towels, line three or four laundry baskets with paper towels, secure several long-handled wooden spoons, start a large pot of oil heating - Then mix this recipe. The children would gather around the kitchen table, each receiving a ball of dough about the size of a small fist, and pull, with their hands, the "Eiroili" until thin. there was a competition to get the dough as thin as possible without pulling a hole. They would playfully argue which one would look most like an elephant's ear when it came out of the pot. Opa would then push and hold each "cookie" into the pot of oil with a wooden spoon, leaving it until bubbled and crispy. (Not long!) He would then put each cookie to drain on paper towels on the ironing board, the children sprinkling it with the mixture of sugar and cinnamon. It then went, carefully stacked, into the lined laundry baskets awaiting delivery to friends. What fun! Mmmm, good. Of course, we have repeated this ritual with a new generation. CLeeman Thumb Up Helpful (34)

Rating: 5 stars Simply wonderful! When I was melting the shortening/milk/sugar mix I thought this was a huge mistake, but it really turned out perfect in the end. I ended up with ~12 6" rounds and only made half the recipe. The only thing I did differently was adjust the topping to the way I like (much more sugar, much less cinnamon). BTW, 3/8c = 6 tablespoons. Thumb Up Helpful (32)

Rating: 5 stars This recipe was really good especially freshly made:)I made it for my kids at the preschool I work for and my husbands hot rod shop. It was hot both places:) The only heads up I give is the cinnamon sugar topping is way way off...in my opinion anyway so you may want to tweak with that(the cinnamon side of the ratio was too high!) Thanks Thumb Up Helpful (29)

Rating: 5 stars I had a taste for these but didn't want to eat the whole batch so I took them into work and what a hit they were. And so easy to make. I made some with cinnamon-sugar and some with powdered sugar. Thanks! Thumb Up Helpful (26)