How to Make Bannock
An awesome oat bread.
Traditionally eaten on May 1 (Beltane) by pagan shepherds to ensure good luck for the following year, you can make it any time.
Traditionally eaten on May 1 (Beltane) by pagan shepherds to ensure good luck for the following year, you can make it any time.
Ingredients
3 cups oats
a pinch of tsp salt
a pinch of baking powder
2 tbsp butter (or lard if you wanna be really authentic)
1 cup water
Jam, Honey, Whatever else you want to put on it.
a pinch of tsp salt
a pinch of baking powder
2 tbsp butter (or lard if you wanna be really authentic)
1 cup water
Jam, Honey, Whatever else you want to put on it.
Combine Stuff
Combine dry ingredients in a bowl.
Melt the butter.
Mix in butter and water.
Melt the butter.
Mix in butter and water.
Divide and Conquer
Separate the dough into pancake-sized disks.
Heat up a pan with some oil/butter/lard.
Heat up a pan with some oil/butter/lard.
Cook, Serve, Eat
Cook your dough-stuffs on a frying pan, hot rock, griddle, wherever, until they are a nice golden-brown on each side.
Also, the dough is really good raw.
Cut into goodly sized pieces and enjoy with milk and jam... or whatever else you have lying around.
(Really good with natural maple syrup)
Also, the dough is really good raw.
Cut into goodly sized pieces and enjoy with milk and jam... or whatever else you have lying around.
(Really good with natural maple syrup)