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Recipes for quick breads
Delmonico:
Sourdough Potato Pancakes
1 or 2 cooked potato (grated or riced)
bout 2 cups sourdough starter
bout 1 cup milk
1 egg beaten
1 pinch salt
big double pinch brown sugar enough flour to make the batter thick enough mix well, beat a big pinch salertus into the bowl. Cook on cast iron griddle. Pour real melted butter over top, I use homemade elderberry syrup on top
Delmonico:
Irish Soda Bread
2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salertus (baking soda)
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup of cultured butter milk or sour milk
1 beaten egg
3/4 tablespoon butter
Mix the dry ingediants and cut in the butter. Mix the milk and beaten egg and stir it into the dry mix. Knead 12 strokes and form into a round ball. Cut an X on the top and bake in a moderate oven (350-375) for 30 to 40 minutes.
Heck it's St. Patricks day add some currants and a wee bit of brown sugar, (2-4 tablespoons) and brush with another beaten egg before bakin' if desired. ;)
Sir Charles deMouton-Black:
I was sent this from a fellow Cowboy Action Shooter in Victoria BC, "The Reverend Al". He is also quite a cook.
Bannock 101
by Richard Munn Published 07-12-2006
Bannock 101
History
Most of us believe that bannock is a traditional native food that was adapted by European fur traders. In fact, it's the other way around. In many parts of North America, Native people had no access to flour prior to the arrival of European traders, although some flour substitutes existed, like wild turnips or corn, dried and ground to a powder.
Bannock actually has its culinary roots in Scotland. The Scots originated this simple bread, and some fancier variations. Do a search on traditional Scottish cuisine and you'll find bannock mentioned frequently. You'll probably find information on Selkirk Bannock, old and famous enough to have its own name. It was a fancy bannock served only on holidays.
Because bannock could be quickly prepared from readily available ingredients, and because these ingredients lasted a long time without spoiling, bannock became a staple of the European fur traders and subsequently, the native people also. Of course, canoeists and other wilderness travellers have also adopted bannock as a staple of backcountry travel.
What is Bannock?
Bannock is a simple bread, generally leavened with baking powder rather than yeast. It can be baked, fried in a pan or sometimes even deep-fried. It can be made from virtually any kind of andse almost any kind of fat available (oil, lard, or bacon grease).
Making Bannock
Famed author and wilderness canoeist Sigurd Olson passed on his recipe for Bannock in a letter from 1962, stating that it was good "...for four, depending on what else goes with it." Olson's recipe was:
"Three or four cups of flour, a good pinch of salt, a few tablespoons of bacon grease, a level teaspoon of baking powder, enough warm water to make dough. Kneed the dough well, turning it over and over until all the ingredients are well mixed and the dough of even consistency. Use only enough water to make a rather dry dough. Too much water and it is spoiled.
Then, depending on the size of your frying pan, cut off enough of the dough to pat into a well-greased pan, making the bannock at this stage not more than half an inch in thickness. Have it fill the pan.
Now it is ready for the baking. You can start it over a low flame very gently so as not to burn, but it is better to do as the Indians and Old Timersprop your pan beside the fire so it will get the heat and bake from the top. After the top is done, you can turn it and brown the other side. It usually takes about twenty minutes. The secret is a slow, even heat.
After it is done you can rub it with more bacon grease to make a nice juicy crust. Many like to add some fruit to the bannock, raisins, any chopped fruit, dried, or anything you can pick in season. It does something.
This is the bread of the north and worth working at."
The first rule of bannock making seems to be that there are no rules. A glance at the hundreds of recipes available shows a wild variation in ingredients, quantities and cooking time. Virtually any combination of flour, water and baking powder that is baked or fried will result in some type of bread, although the final product will vary in "eat-ability."
Recipes
A basic bannock recipe consists of:
4 cups flour
1 tsp salt
1/2 cup melted lard
4 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 cups water
From this basic starting point, a wide variation exists. Some recipes call for more or less water, some call for more baking powder. Some call for the addition of eggs. Many recommend "fancying up" the recipe with cinnamon, brown sugar, nuts or berries.
As long as these basic proportions are maintained, and the resulting dough is fairly dry (rather than sticky or runny) the end result will likely be acceptable. The dough is patted down into a pizza-like patty and either baked or fried in a pan with oil. Traditionally, bannock was baked in a cast iron frying pan that was propped up next to the fire so that the top baked.
Bannock prepared by frying takes about 12-15 minutes to cook. Baked bannock will take longer - from 30 to 40 minutes
Favorite Metis recipes from the Louis Riel Institute of Manitoba
Li Gallette - Bannock
3 cups flour
1 tsp salt
1 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp baking powder
1/2-cup lard
1 1/2 cups cold water
Mix
Knead 5 to 8 minutes
Roll 1/2 thick
Bake at 375° F until done
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Sir Charles deMouton-Black:
Old West Sourdough Biscuits
Ingredients
• 2 cups flour
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 cup shortening
• 1 cup sourdough starter
• 1/3 cup milk
Combine dry ingredients in bowl; mix. Cut in shortening until it looks like coarse meal. Add sourdough starter to milk. Stir with fork until moist. Do not over-stir. Turn dough out on lightly floured board, then gently pat into a 10-inch circle. Cut; place on ungreased cookie sheet and bake at 450 degrees F for 12 minutes.
Sir Charles deMouton-Black:
Corn Cake
One egg, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, one cup of Indian meal (which is yellow corn meal), two cups of flour, two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar, one teaspoonful of soda, a little salt, a piece of butter the size of a walnut, and one pint of sweet milk.
It didn't say how long to cook, but usually in the oven about 25 minutes.
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