Float with saltfishFloat: You’d be Surprised as Well
We actually stumbled upon this recipe by mistake. My wife was making fry bake for dinner and decided to use yeast instead of using the usual baking powder; since she wanted the fry bake to come out softer; as you would remember with the coconut bake made with the yeast. To my surprise while frying I noticed how the fry bake puffed up and thought that was a little different than what I was accustomed to, but I still ate it and went to bed still wondering about this puffy fry bake like crapaud belly that we made. By the way for those of you who don’t know; a crapaud is our Trini name for a toad.
It was only yesterday that I realized what had happened. While driving home, my friend Ingrid told me what I made was float and not just fry bake made with yeast. Then I remembered my mother telling me that long time they used to make accra and float and the accra was sometimes put inside the float and eaten. Anyhow that’s how the story goes, we discovered how to make float by accident and you all got a recipe. Enjoy.
Float Recipe
FLOAT
3½ cups flour
½ cup wheat flour
2 tbsp. yeast
1 tsp.salt
1½ cups water or slightly more
1 tbsp.sugar
Oil for frying (bake)
Sift together the flour, and wheat flour. 
Add salt, yeast and sugar; mix well
Add the water all at once, if dough is still dry when mixed, 
Allow dough to relax for ½ hour.Notice it is now twice it’s original size.
Divide dough into small balls
Roll ball of dough out on a floured board to 1/4 inch thick and round.
Fry in hot oil (do not deep fry), turn once and drain on kitchen paper;notice how it swells
Serve cool.
Here we have float with saltfish.kinda sounds like terminator haha! :^)
Hi thanks for this but it didn’t work for me. How much oil did you use and should there be more yeast?
Adding some more info. They were flat and didn’t rise at all. Shouldn’t they sit in oil and float to the top. Shouldn’t there be more oil?
Hi Karen,
Contact me http://bit.ly/eUE8Y and explain everything. Let’s see what went wrong.
I know it is more-so a Guyanese recipe, but I’ve been thinking to try making a pepperpot recently and I am accustomed eating it with bread. Would the float go nice with with it?
Perhaps it will…Only one way to find out really