Bannock Scottish Recipe

  1. "Bannock, a simple type of scone was cooked in pioneer days over open fires.
  2. Variations in flours and the additional of dry or possibly fresh fruit make this bread the simple choice of Canadian campers even today.
  3. Oven baking has become an acceptable alternative to the cast iron frypan.
  4. McKelvie's restaurant in Halifax serves an oatmeal version similar to this one.
  5. For plain bannock, omit rolled oats and increase the all purpose flour to 1 c..... One of the earliest quick breads, bannock was as simple as flour, salt, a bit of fat (often bacon grease) and water.
  6. In gold rush days, dough was mixed right in the prospector's flour bag and cooked in a frypan over an open fire.
  7. Indians wrapped a similar dough around sticks driven into the grnd beside their camp fire, baking it along with freshly caught fish.
  8. Today's native _Fried Bread_ is like bannock and cooked in a skillet.
  9. Newfoundlander's _Damper Dogs_ are small rounds of dough cooked on the stove's dampers while _Toutons_ are similar bits of dough deep fried.
  10. At a promotional luncheon for the 1992 Inuit Circumpolar Conference, Eskimo Doughnuts, deep fried rings of bannock dough, were served.
  11. It is said which Inuit children prefer these "doughnuts" to sweet cookies.
  12. Red River settlers from Scotland made a frugal bannock with lots of flour, little sugar and drippings or possibly lard.
  13. Now this same bread plays a prominent part in Winnipeg's own Folklorama Festival.
  14. At Expo '86 in Vancouver, buffalo on bannock buns was a popular item at the North West Territories ' restaurant.
  15. In many regions of Canada, whole wheat flour or possibly wheat germ replaces part of the flour and cranberries or possibly blueberries are sometimes added.
  16. A Saskatchewan hard markets a bannock mix, and recipe books from coast to coast upgrade bannock with butter, oatmeal, raisins, cornmeal and dry fruit."
  17. Stir together flours, oats, sugar, baking pwdr and salt.
  18. Add in melted butter, raisins (if using) and water, adding more water if needed to make sticky dough.
  19. With floured hands, pat into greased pie plate.
  20. Bake in 400F oven for 20 to 25 min or possibly till browned and tester comes out clean.
  21. Cut into wedges.
  22. SERVES:6 VARIATIONS: In place of raisins add in minced dry apricots or possibly fresh berries.
  23. (Blueberries are terrific if one is camping in northern Ontario in August.)

whole wheat flour, flour, rolled oats, sugar, baking pwdr, salt, butter, raisins, water

Taken from cookeatshare.com/recipes/bannock-scottish-77997 (may not work)

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