best bannock recipe

alittlej · #1 01-29-2010, 08:17 PM

i need help !! i will be taking a group of kids out tommorrow to show them my leento that i used last week-end and ask them how i could have emproved on it. i am planning on makeing a day of it [10;00 till 2:00pm] and will have a campfire going for them to roast weiners on make hot choclate , make some soup for them. trying to have a fun filled day with the kids

what i would like to try and do is make up some bannock dough tonight for them to cook on a stick tommorrow but do not know of any off hand. i have heard that the ones with lard are best. can you help out a person with some recipets please !!!
thanks
derek
ps i may even try to post some pictures of our event when i get back....if my daughter can help me with it

sourdough doug · #2 01-29-2010, 10:19 PM

Have you tried searching for bannock recipes.. I did sev years ago and found maybe 1/2 doz. of them.. Good luck , it's getting late..

ghostguy6 · #3 01-29-2010, 11:15 PM

1-cup whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons milk powder

Multi-flour Bannock Recipe

1 Cup Barley flour
1 Cup Wheat flour
1/2 Cup Rolled Oats
1 Cup White Sugar
1/2 to 1 Cup Raisins or other dried fruit
1 1/2 Cup Buttermilk
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 tbsp. Coarse Ground Salt
1 tbsp. Cinnamon
1 tbsp. Cloves
1 tbsp. Nutmeg

My personal favorite. Add some jam and powdered sugar after its cooked. Just like a dannish

Fried Bannock.

4 cups flour
2 tbsp baking powder
2 tbsp sugar
1/2 cup milk

1/4 cup margarine/butter
2 eggs
1/4 tbsp salt

Mix all the ingredients so a dough ball is formed. Break off pieces and flatten into rounds about ½ inch thick. Fry to a golden brown in the oil of your choice.

ungodly · #4 01-30-2010, 01:45 AM

Was over at my friends house for her birthday a week ago or so and they made "Indian Tacos"

Bannock bread topped with homemade chili, then tomato, onion, sour cream and salsa. Have not been that full in a very long time!

Would recommend trying something like that if you have the materials on hand.

As to how to make the bannock over the fire I am of no use.

Sporty · #5 01-30-2010, 05:04 AM

Might be too late of a reply for you but there are many recipes on the internet including the ones posted here. My suggestion is to mix all the dry ingredients ahead of time then mix in your milk/water when you're out there. I don't know how well a pre-mixed moist bannock dough would keep. Once it is wet it will activate the baking powder and if not baked/fried/cooked right away it will go bad an won't rise at all.

My only suggestion for making Bannock, no matter the recipe, is don't handle it very much. The longer you handle bannock the tougher and denser it turns out. I only mix the bannock until everything is incooperated thouroughly, turn it out onto a counter then flatten it with my hands. I don't use a rolling pin. I either cut into circles or bake whole.

firegod74 · #6 01-30-2010, 06:09 AM

Way back in the day on a school hiking trip our Biology teacher cooked us something good. He called it bannock, and I suppose its close enough.
He took along some pancake mix, a bit of sugar and some cinnamon. When we got to our first camp he boiled some lard over the fire in a makeshift pot made out of a coffee can and haywire. The mixed the pancake dough, sugar and cinnamon together with some water to make a thick batter and dropped it by the tablespoon full into the oil.
Very tasty and kinda like a timbit.

James Henry · #7 01-30-2010, 06:21 AM

My sister uses Bisquick to make hers, just add water and mix it into a dough. The kids poke in their sticks, twist and then hold them over the fire. Quick and easy!! And available at all of the grocery stores...

Tundra Monkey · #8 01-30-2010, 10:41 AM

Hey alittlej:

If you want to cheat pick up some of those Pilsbury croissante (sp?) premade things....they work well cooked on a stick. Wrap it around the cooked hotdogs and toasting it again works well too.

tm

lippy · #9 01-30-2010, 02:10 PM

6 cups flour
3 tblsps baking powder
2 teaspoons sugar
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons shortening
lukewarm water
mix dry ingredients together - add water and shortening- knead until smooth.

If cooking at home place in a pre-heated 350 degree oven on a cookie sheet until golden brown.

dgl1948 · #10 01-30-2010, 05:48 PM

Every time I see or here Bannock I think of a storey in one of Farley Mowat's books. He told about living up North and he had a native woman for a cook and she was always chewing tobacco One day when he walked into the kitchen she was mixing bannock. As he stood there watching here she spit a big wet wad into the mix and just kept mixing. He said he got very upset and asked her not to do this. She replied, "why, you did not mind before"

redranger15 · #11 01-30-2010, 06:08 PM

My personal favorite. Add some jam and powdered sugar after its cooked. Just like a dannish

Fried Bannock.

4 cups flour
2 tbsp baking powder
2 tbsp sugar
1/2 cup milk

1/4 cup margarine/butter
2 eggs
1/4 tbsp salt

Mix all the ingredients so a dough ball is formed. Break off pieces and flatten into rounds about ½ inch thick. Fry to a golden brown in the oil of your choice.[/QUOTE]

Made a batch this morn and me and the kids thought it was great.

Hooked07 · #12 01-30-2010, 08:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dgl1948

Every time I see or here Bannock I think of a storey in one of Farley Mowat's books. He told about living up North and he had a native woman for a cook and she was always chewing tobacco One day when he walked into the kitchen she was mixing bannock. As he stood there watching here she spit a big wet wad into the mix and just kept mixing. He said he got very upset and asked her not to do this. She replied, "why, you did not mind before"

Now that is disgusting.gag!

Bannock is real easy to make but the pilsbury idea while being quick and tasty really doesn't hold the same outdoor old school appeal of bannock for the kids. How'd it go, where's the pics?

#13 01-30-2010, 11:15 PM

1 cup flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/8 tsp salt

James M · #14 01-30-2010, 11:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MTWALLET

1 cup flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/8 tsp salt

So you just dump this mix of powder onto a heated frying pan?

muzzy · #15 01-31-2010, 01:07 PM

Any of above recipes but if out in bush roll out in long rolls about 1 in diameter and twist around a stick and let kids roast above fire

Gord

Tundra Monkey · #16 01-31-2010, 01:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by muzzy

Any of above recipes but if out in bush roll out in long rolls about 1 in diameter and twist around a stick and let kids roast above fire

Gord

How do you get MTWallets recipe to stay on the stick

tm

Tundra Monkey · #17 01-31-2010, 01:21 PM

[QUOTE=Hooked07;497179]
Bannock is real easy to make but the pilsbury idea while being quick and tasty really doesn't hold the same outdoor old school appeal of bannock for the kids. QUOTE]

True....but when I posted it he was running out of time and it was a short notice fix.....especially for a guy that doesn't know how to make bannock.

tm