Need some help making Bannock!

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cmgray

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Calling all cooks!!!!! Let me start off by apologizing, but I tried the search feature and couldn't find what I was looking for..

So I am taking my son, who's 5, and a buddy out for their first tarp camping experience. My son has been a number of times, but always in the tent. Anyways I wanna find some activities to distract him from the tarp, and I thought making some bannock would be one of them, along with carving tent pegs, looking for natural tinder and cordage.

So I'm asking you all for your recipes, and cooking methods. The simpler the better! Is the stick approach the best? Do you prefer cooking it on a rock? In a Zebra pot?

Thanks in advance guys!
 
found it here
http://www.zombiehunters.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=24643

Campfire Bannock

4 cups flour
8 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. sugar
about 3 cups cold water

Mix dry ingredients thoroughly and stir in enough water to make a thick batter that will pour out level. Mix rapidly with spoon until smooth. Pour into large greased frying pan and set on hot coals. Turn when bottom is brown. Cook until no dough sticks when a toothpick (or knife) is poked into the middle.
 
If I remember, on a stick was called a damper
Flat was a bannock

Green stick is the easiest and most fun for a kid
Flat stone if you can find one and it does not explode!
Dutch oven
Greased iron skillet
or
Biscuit tin packed with mud on the outside over a fire trench, makes a great oven

In Scouts we used flour and baking powder
But you can add anything to the mix
And it becomes a pancake.....

Backpacking, I would eat lentils for supper.
Leave some over mixed with oatmeal and leave to sit over night
In the morning, cook very slowly with a tiny amount of oil in a frying pan
Was that a bannock?
 
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ibashooter said:
found it here
http://www.zombiehunters.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=24643

Campfire Bannock

4 cups flour
8 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. sugar
about 3 cups cold water

Mix dry ingredients thoroughly and stir in enough water to make a thick batter that will pour out level. Mix rapidly with spoon until smooth. Pour into large greased frying pan and set on hot coals. Turn when bottom is brown. Cook until no dough sticks when a toothpick (or knife) is poked into the middle.
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I think that was basically the recipe I used, I added some Blueberries though to flavour it up a little:

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A word of warning, I know it would make a great excuse to get ya knife in the pic for us showing you cut it up but don't. Seems it's unlucky to cut Bannock with a knife, you should just break it up with your hands !!!
 
Thanks guys for the great responses. Some excellent recipes and ideas. So basically, it's either the green stick method or cast iron. Anyone use the pot inside a pot method, I think I saw that mentioned somewhere.

Thanks Pitdog. I will resist the urge to cut it up!
 
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I used 1 cup flour,1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder,1/4 teaspoon brown sugar,1/8 teaspoon salt,1/8 teaspoon oil,1/2 cup milk.

to make this amount.

Splash of the Captain.:D
 
When we made damper (aussie version) on army cadet camps we just wrapped the dough around the end of a stick and held it over the coals. Crude but effective :p
 
IA Woodsmen thats an excellent video. Do you remember the breakdown of ingredients? The pan inside the pot seems to produce the best results. Thanks!!
 
cmgray said:
IA Woodsmen thats an excellent video. Do you remember the breakdown of ingredients? The pan inside the pot seems to produce the best results. Thanks!!
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The base is;
1 cup of flour
1Tsp Baking Powder
1/8 Tsp of salt

After that you can add fruit, nuts, sugar,cheese,peperoni etc....
 
I really want to try this out on the trail some day

[video=youtube;1_gn7xhqfjY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_gn7xhqfjY[/video]
 
i apologize... i did not take the time to read all posts word-for-word....
i have been cooking and eating bannock my entire life, both in the house and in the bush. i would suggest cooking it in a pan or skillet at first.... after all, most kids burn marshmellows on sticks haha let alone bread!
the basic thing t discover and understand is consistancy.... i have been in the bush and at home MANY time when all that was prepared was bannock, flour and water.... that's it! so just understand that you can't mess up the recipe too much.... if you are given a recipe that requires 1 cup of flour.... just understand that after that the ingredients are interchangeable.... if you want it to be sweet. add a sweetner..... sugar, honey, berrys, maple syrop.... if you are making it savory, add lard, or bacon fat, and whatever else you'd like.
bannock is a dish that is filling, and fun, and WILDLY improvisational... that is why it became so important in north america.
given that you are with kids. bring flour. bring a small amount of baking soda and baking powder. and a sweetner like maple syrop or sugar.... if you're in season where you are, then have the boys hunt for berry to fix it up....
just don't think that there is a "recipe" for bannock. the truth is there are only "recipes" and everyone's is different, it's all "season to taste" and experimentation. you will have as much fun as the kids do testing this out.
my apologies for the long winded response. tomorrow i will simply add my personal recipe and ignore the chatter haha.
 
The base is;
1 cup of flour
1Tsp Baking Powder
1/8 Tsp of salt
After that you can add fruit, nuts, sugar,cheese,peperoni etc....
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agreed. except, change salt for sugar if you're going the sweet, aka breakfast, route.... it's so simple! that's what makes it great...
 
I made a Damper yesterday:

2 cups flour
4 tsp baking powder
2 tsp sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 cups milk
1/4 cup butter

I also added some chocolate chips and a little desicated coconut and it came out great !
 
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