do any of you lovely ladies happen to have a recipe for "bannock"? there's a lot of them online, but there are so many different ones, even for the basic stuff with no special things (we just want to make the plain kind, no currants or raisins or whatever, dd doesn't like those) and i have no idea what would be a 'good one'..... i'm not much of a baker/cook/etc - dh is the good cook in the house, but he doesn't have any for this.... me, i specialize in mac & cheese :lol: if you have one that you've used and like, can you post it? it's hard to know what ones online might turn out good and what ones won't, know what i mean?
bannock that photo appears to be of the fried kind - it can also be baked.... and as you can see if you scroll on that site, there are a tonne of recipes --- even one named after my province :lol: i have no idea of how to tell a good one though...i've used random recipes found online before with not so good results...so i thought i'd check and see if anyone here makes it and has a good working one.
hmmmm they sound almost like things they used to give us in elementry school at lunch called elephant ears! Thanks for sharing and sorry I don't have a recipe to share with you!
I looked up a recipe on the internet. http://www.twobay.com/bannock.htm I just made it and we all tasted it. It is like a fluffy pie crust. Not very tasty. No sugar was added. I made 1/3 of the recipe. It does not taste like an elephant ear, although we did put powered sugar on top and it didn't make too much difference. I think it would be better with more fruit in it. I added raisins, but maybe a cherry pie filling would be better, or apple.
your elephant ears are our beaver tails! :lol: (which are delicious - there's a place in cavendish here that sells them in the summer and mmmmmmm!)
oh wow you were a bannock tester taster!... or taster tester... :lol: so that one, though maybe not all that good plain, actually works at least :lol: myself, i'd love raisins - but dd views those as horrible little things that should never be eaten (she loves them as grapes though LOL ) hmmm....apple pie stuff... that could make for an interesting twist..... YUM!
see now, there's another diff recipe :lol: ...they're similar, but slightly diff amounts off stuff and diff cooking temps.... we're just gonna have to pick one :lol: the reason for this cooking is because dd is doing a province by province study and this week she was learning about the new(er) territory of Nunavut... at the end of each week, we're making a dish from whatever area -- Nunavut is populated by mostly Inuit (what used be "eskimo" for anyone who doesn't know the word "Inuit") peoples, and seeing as how we haven't got a very good supply of whale, caribou, or seal meat here in prince edward island (and none of us would eat that anyway!) we chose bannock - it's something that many Inuit people often cook...along with other cultures as well of course, but it was actually listed in the unit study that we were somewhat-following as an activity...
I grew up thinking bannock was just a scottish bread. My dad's family was from Cape Breton and about as scottish as you could get without actually living in Scotland.
it worked! we used the recipe in the pdf you linked, dawninns, and it turned out pretty yummy --- and kinda chocolatey :lol: .. dd decided that she wanted to put chocolate chips in it, and while i had no idea if that would work, i figured we'd give it a shot -- and after all, that's her being creative and trying out an idea; i'd never want to wet blanket that! we also tried a little of the dough in the deep fryer (despite my hatred of using that scary thing LOL ) because we had a little too much for the size of dish i had..we made doughnut type rings and they turned out kinda neat, though greasy..... dd and her friend preferred the baked version by far - as did i...her little bro hasn't tried it yet, nor has dh, but they can later.... though i guess since i've never had it made by anyone at all before, i'm assuming it turned out right!
That recipe sounds better than what I used, they used some sugar. Gald it turned out. I had never heard of this before. Thanks for sharing.
That's so interesting! I was going to say that when I was in Romania, we used to stop at sidewalk shops and pick up treats that looked a lot like these, and they were chocolate filled. Deee Licious!!!
