Bannock

On my next camping trip, I am thinking of going light on food.  I have never brought dry food and rehydrate them later.  The next time, I will bring only dry food and one of the bags I will bring with me will contain ingredients for bannock.  I saw a number of recipes online and also saw an video of Kevin Callan on YouTube where he was making bannock.  It sounded like a very simple recipe and it sounded nice.  So, last night, I swang by the supermarket to pick up a few items I did not have at home.  This morning I tried making it.

The original recipe calls for 3 cups of all purpose flour, 2 tablespoon of baking powder, 1 teaspoon of salt, 1/4 cup of melted butter, and 1 1/2 cups of water.  I changed the recipe a tiny bit, to more like what Kevin was using.  For my first attempt, I cut down the volume by 2/3, so I used 1 cup of flour, 2/3 tablespoon of baking powder, 1/3 teaspoon of salt.  I did not use butter.  After adding water and mixed the powder up, I added some brown sugar and sprinkled some raisin into the mix.

For cooking, I did not feel like baking it so I put some oil in a small pot and placed the mix in the pot over an electric oven at low temperature.  As it was taking too long, I turned up the temperature dial.  That was a mistake as the bannock started to burn a little.  After a few minutes, I turned the bannock over to grill the other side.  That side got burned a little too.  Yikes.

After a few more minutes, I stopped the cooking process.  The bannock tasted ok.  I think I needed more brown sugar and more raisin.  The bannock alone (without the sugar and raisin) has virtually no taste.  Well, now I sort of know how to make bannock.  I am ready for the next camping trip! :)