Bannock

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bdavis

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Ever try bannock? It's good if cooked right.

Here's how I do it......

First, take a large mixing bowl, 3 cups of water, 4 cups of flour, 3 tablespoons of baking powder and 2 teaspoons of salt and combine in the mixing bowl. You don't want the mixture too sticky so, if it is, simply add a bit more flour.

Next, in a large frying pan, melt some lard till you've got about 1" of grease in the bottom of the pan. Now, place your doughy mixutre in the pan and flatten it out a bit. It helps to take a couple forks and kinda poke small holes in the dough to allow the grease to cook the middle . Now, let it cook till it's a lighter golden brown then flip it over and finish the cooking. Remove from the pan and place on a plate with some paper towel(to absorb some of the grease) Let it cool for a few minutes.

To serve, break off a chunk and smother it with your favourite topping. Jelly, peanut butter, butter, syrup, honey are some of my favourite toppings. If you like raisins, you can add them into the dough misture before cooking it.
 
Never heard of that before Brian. Sounds good though. We'll have to give it a try. :thumb:
 
It's an old indian recipe. It's like a type of bread. For a change out at the campsite, instead of the usual hotdogs on the fire, I'll whip up a batch of bannock dough the roll it out. I then cut it into squares big enough to wrap around wieners. I wrap each wiener with the bannock dough, then deep fry them in lard. You end up with a hotdog without the bun. I usually just dip it in ketchup or mustard as I eat it.

Darn it.......gettin hungry just thinking about them. Anyways, there's a bunch of different ways to make Bannock. You can google the word "Bannock" and it will give a bunch of different recipe's for it. It's really good when it's hot, covered in butter, and honey. Mmmmmmmm mmmm mmmmm mmmm mmmmmmmm, good!
 
I saw a guy on one of Bobby Flay's shows make bannock and toss it on the grill. He put blueberries in his dough and just patted the dough out with his hands, brushed with olive oil and put it directly on the grill grate.

Such an easy recipe, I'm going to try it! If I mess it up, I'm only out a few ingredients from my larder.

Lee
 
traditional bannock was wrapped around the end of a stick and cooked over a fire... bannock was as simple as flour, salt, a bit of fat (often bacon grease) and water.

there are different cultures with bannock ...Irish bannock...Beltane bannock...Selkirk bannock...
 
Sounds like a Johnny Cake, but made with flour instead of corn meal. How cool! I'm going to give this a try. Thanks!
 
Keltin said:
Sounds like a Johnny Cake, but made with flour instead of corn meal. How cool! I'm going to give this a try. Thanks!
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here is a pic of our traditional bannock... i believe you guys use to call it hardtack or something like that... very tense,very heavy but really good if cooked in a cast iron pan over a fire or wrapped around a stick

heres some history on the bannock the natives make around here

http://prairiechickkitchen.ca/blog/?p=179

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Ooooh, that does sound good, bdavis. I have copied and pasted the recipe and the directions for the campsite hotdogs. And it sounds a lot like southern Native American fry bread to me, too. Where are you located?
 
My Mother called it Flap Jacks, (Not Pancakes).
Same recipe. She pulled the dough tight, so there was a hole in the dough somewhere. She would butter and salt them.
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Years later I was on an Indian reservation in Michigan/Ontario(Middle of the river) And I had what they called there" Indian Bread," but looked like small footballs. (My first for Many Bean Soup too).
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I don't care what name anyone uses. It is good stuff. When we were low on Money, it also kept us from Hunger!
 
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