Easy Bannock Recipe

Easy Bannock Recipe

The rule of one

Easy Bannock Recipe

• Serves: 1-3
• Prep Time: 10 minutes
• Total Time: 20 minutes

 

Ingredients

• 1 cup of flour
• 1 tablespoon of sugar
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder
• 1 pinch of salt

Instructions

1. Mix these dry ingredients together in quantity ( keeping these proportions ) and store in a plastic bag or container for easy transport to your camping spot.
2. Now add just enough water to make a stiff dough. Do not over work this dough. I dust my hands with flour and form the dough into 1 to 3 flat pancakes.
3. There are as many ways to cook bannock as there are recipes. It depends on my mood and location how I cook it. Sometimes I form the dough over a stick and bake it over the flames of a campfire. It gets a great smoky flavor this way. Another is in a heated cast iron fry pan, first held over the flame to cook the bottom then tilted up and leaning the handle on a stick so the flames cook the top of the bannock in the pan. But my favorite is frying in oil.
4. Frying in oil over a campfire is dangerous so I usually cook this way on a stove. Spilling heated oil into a open flame is a recipe for flareups and flash fires.
5. Traditionally is was bear fat, then lard, but I like to cook healthier these days so I cook my bannock in coconut oil. It not only stores well without the requirement for refrigeration but it melts well and has no cholesterol. It also imparts a lovely flavor to the bannock.
6. Of course the time it takes to cook depends on the method, how hot the fire is and how thick you start the dough.