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task force k

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I've been making Bannock for years but am interested in your recipes, photos, and hints in making this great campfire food. Actually, I think I'm just hungry.

I don't have a recipe as such...I just sort of mix ingredients "by feel". I've made it in a frying pan and wrapped around a stick Boy Scout style.

Feel free to share other campfire favorites...I am just really hungry.

Thanks in advance,
J
 
I stuff mine with Aged cheddar and serrano peppers, sliced up

sliced up spicy green olives, garlic , and parmasen cheese are good too in bannock
 
I too just mix everthing by eye. I just start off with some amount of flour, add a teaspoon of salt and baking powder. Then pour water until I think it'll get my the consistency I want. If its too watery I'll add a bit more flour and if it's too thick I'll add a little more water.

I've added cheese to the mix before and it was alright. I do want to try fruit, maybe some sliced apples inside.
 
I'm glad this thread came up. Thanks, J!

I recently bought some Irish Soda Bread at the market. It was very sweet and had lots of raisins in it. I never knew why it was called "soda bread" so I looked it up. In my reading, I learned about bannock, too, and now I'm anxious to bring along the fixin's on my next camping trip.

I usually just camp on hunting trips and pack whatever food is lightest and easiest. I plan to do a lot of "pleasure camping" this spring and summer, and I intend to make the cooking and eating part of the "pleasure". I'll be making bannock, for sure. I'm looking forward to reading what other people enjoy.

Stay sharp,
desmobob
 
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desmobob said:
I'm glad this thread came up. Thanks, J!

I recently bought some Irish Soda Bread at the market. It was very sweet and had lots of raisons in it. I never knew why it was called "soda bread" so I looked it up....
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Ordinary soda bread doesn't have the raisins in, as you probably found out in your reading. I happen to have both types in the bread bin atm!
The fruit version is lovely toasted and buttered :)

OK, back to bannock!
 
Any recipes or You Tube that can show exactly how to make it.. Do you all use a dutch oven only??

sasha
 
There is a book TRAIL FOOD and this one is based on the recipe in there. Except I substituted some buckwheat flour for some of the flour and rolled oats. Was cooked in this little skillet.
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On this hike there was blueberries and cranberries.
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I used the same recipe but substituted powdered ultra vanilla soymilk for the powdered milk and used spelt flour and flax seeds. Then I added the blueberries and chopped cranberries. With the vanilla great breakfast!
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Sasha,

The great thing about bannock is that you don't need a dutch oven. Really, you don't need a pan. I've cooked it over coals spiraled around a green stick. I've seen it cooked on a hot rock next to a fire. Mr. Mears did a great bit on bannock during Bushcraft that is available on Youtube. Another cool bit is that, as Mr. Hollowdweller demonstrates with his bee-oot-if-ul pictures, you can put together the basic mix before you leave (and it's fine by itself) but add wild edibles that you collect along the trail. I made one bannock with my wife's sun dried tomatoes, wild onions, gobs of shredded cheddar, and slices of hard salami. I'm making myself hungry again.

Mr. Hollowdweller,

Those really are great examples.

Thank you,
J
 
Another idea...Hard Tack. My sister-in-law and I made some from the old Army recipe as part of a history extra credit project when she was in High School. Soaked in gravy or bacon grease it was alright...otherwise it was like a flour brick. The project went much better than the mouse trap car we made in Middle School.
 
task force k said:
Sasha,

I made one bannock with my wife's sun dried tomatoes, wild onions, gobs of shredded cheddar, and slices of hard salami. I'm making myself hungry again.
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Yeah that's almost pizza like and if you do it thin you can do up the trail pizza thing. I've always wanted to put a flat rock in the fire, let it burn down and then make a bannock pizza on it.
 
I just experimented a little in the kitchen, for breakfast. I made up a simple, un-measured mix of flour, sugar, powdered milk, and baking powder. I forgot to add any salt. I put in a pinch of cinnamon.

I mixed in water until it was at a "bread dough" consistency, then plopped it into a hot frying pan and flattened it out a bit. After it browned on the bottom, I turned it over and put the cover on the pan and cooked it for another 5 minutes.

It was great! I forgot to take photos, and I'm sorry to report that the fruit of my labor has been completely eaten. :)

By the way, my baking powder was from an opened tin stamped with an expiration date of OCT2001. I Googled to find out if it would still be good and everything I read led me to believe it would not be; most cooks suggested replacing it every year. I dropped a little into some warm water to see if it was still good... it foamed up like crazy. No problems from my expired-eight-years baking powder; the bannock was nice and airy on the inside and a little chewy on the outside. :thumbup: Some raisins would have made it really good!

I will be packing the mixed dry ingredients on future camp-outs.

Stay sharp (and bon appetit),
desmobob
 
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