Elephant Ears! Get your Elephant Ears!!!

The Infamous Booth:

North Idaho Fair : August 26-30, 2009

In this small of a town, you can be semi-famous for something like this....

My family owns

THE ELEPHANT EAR BOOTH

at the North Idaho Fair.

Yes, my grandfather co-founded it and built it, my mother and her 3 siblings run it and all of us grandkids and great-grandkids work it.

Everyone does what they can and fills all the shifts and duties associated with it.

It is a huge task even though it only lasts for a week.

This year I spent most of the time working shifts, baby-sitting for others while they worked shifts, and counting money after midnight.

All of the money we make as a family goes into a missionary fund for all of the posterity.

I got money to pay part of my mission when I was 21.

My kids will probably get it all paid for, as well as when Ty and I go when we are older.

It is an awesome time to see family and work for a good cause.

Not to mention, they are delicious! I still love them after all these years!

Here is roughly how an ELEPHANT EAR is born:

Mix the ingredients in this huge mixer to make the dough.

I cannot tell you the secret ingredients or I will have to kill you... or I will probably get killed!

We put it in huge plastic tubs to raise.

....Noah...

Then we cut the dough in big balls and put them on cookie trays to raise in the "poofer."

...Jeff Davis, cousin...

Her is where they get rolled out the old fashioned way, with pure man power.

Rolling, rolling, rolling...

...Brent Davis, cousin, and Dusty Gatten, brother...

Here is the vat.

Very Hot Oil! This is where they are dropped to be cooked until golden brown.

Cooking in the extreme heat!

...Brett Gatten, borther...

After they rest for a second, we pull them off the rack, cover them in cinnamon and sugar, and stack them between paper towels to be handed out the window.

...Cherea' Steele, cousin...Benji Lee, cousin...

This is why we do it, FOR OUR FAMILY MISSIONARY FUND.

One thing, we know how to attract quite the long line, but if you have ever had one, you know it is worth the wait. Come and see us next year at the Fair, you know we will be there!