Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

1 c Whole wheat flour 1/2 ts Salt
1/2 c All purpose flour 2 tb Butter -- melted
1/2 c Rolled oats 1/3 c Raisins -- optional
2 tb Sugar -- granulated 3/4 c Water; approx
2 ts Baking powder

"Bannock, a simple type of scone was cooked in poineer days over open
fires. Variations in flours and the addtional of dried or fresh fruit
make this bread the simple choice of Canadian campers even today.
Oven baking has become an acceptable alternative to the cast iron
frypan. McKelvie's resturant in Halifax serves an oatmeal version
similar to this one. For plain bannock, omit rolled oats and increase
the all purose flour to 1 cup.... One of the earliest quick breads,
bannock was as simple as flour, salt, a bit of fat (often bacon
grease) and water. In gold rush days, dough was mixed right in the
prospector's flour bag and cooked in a frypan over an open fire.
Indians wrapped a similar dough around sticks driven into the ground
beside their camp fire, baking it along with freshly caught fish.
Today's native _Fried Bread_ is like bannock and cooked in a
skillet. Newfoundlander's _Damper Dogs_ are small rounds of dough
cooked on the stove's dampers while _Toutons_ are similar bits of
dough deep fried. At a promotional luncheon for the 1992 Inuit
Circumpolar Conference, Eskimo Doughnuts, deep fried rings of bannock
dough, were served. It is said that Inuit children prefer these
"doughnuts" to sweet cookies.Red River settlers from Scotland made a
frugal bannock with lots of flour, little sugar and drippings or
lard. Now this same bread plays a prominent part in Winnipeg's own
Folklorama Festival. At Expo '86 in Vanocuver, buffalo on bannock
buns was a popular item at the North West Territories ' restaurant.
In many regions of Canada, whole wheat flour or wheat germ replaces
part of the flour and cranberries or blueberries are sometimes added.
A Saskatchewan firm markets a bannock mix, and recipe books from
coast to coast upgrade bannock with butter, oatmeal, raisins,
cornmeal and dried fruit."

Stir together flours, oats, sugar, baking powder and salt. Add melted
butter, raisins (if using) and water, adding more water if needed to
make sticky dough. With floured hands, pat into greased pie plate.
Bake in 400F oven for 20 to 25 minutes or until browned and tester
comes out clean. Cut into wedges.

SERVES: 6

VARIATIONS: In place of raisins add chopped dried apricots or fresh
berries.(Blueberries are terrific if one is camping in northern
Ontario in August.)

"The First Decade" chapter in _A Century of Canadian Home Cooking_

Recipe By : A Century of Canadian Home Cooking

From: Robert Miles Date: 05-06-95 (159) Fido:
Cooking

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