How To Bake Bannock On A Hot Stone

[haxixatajba]

that great man thanks for the idea of with will try

[oldskoolscout]

this was filmed 3 years ago with a simple photo camera

so picture quality was never the idea

try backpacking with too much video gear

nowadays small photo cameras have reasonable video quality ...

[tim3jones]

That's cool!!!!!!!!!!

[Bassman018]

Are you on the AT??? That shelter looks familiar....

[oldskoolscout]

This was filmed on a island in the Baltic Sea: Vässarö in Sweden.

[oldskoolscout]

I was trying out the primitive way to bake a chapati (Indian flat bread). You just lay your bread on the fine, white ashes and then the risk to get ashes or sand as you call it in it are minimal.

[oldskoolscout]

The actual preparing of the bannock is not that easy. The trick is to practice at home. It also pays up to put some oil on your hands to avoid the dough sticking to your hands. Always keep some flower on the side until the very end. That way you avoid putting in too much moisture.

[oldskoolscout]

Well I kinda cheat. I buy pancake mix packages where you just have to add milk.I also take with me powered milk and mix that at the spot and then mix it into the pancake mix. You can repackage the pancake mix and mix the milk powder into it so you only have to mix water and oil into it in the woods.

[btjm83]

What's your recipie? I'm looking for a simple one applicable to the woods.

[Kaboom0623]

1 cup flour - 2 table spoons Baking powder - 1 large pinch salt - fruits, nuts, or other additives as desired. Grease (bacon is best) or lard of some sort should be used but is optional. Add water until you have a slightly moist dough. DONT need too much as you push the air out. Cook slowly and eat. Goes good with jam, honey and gravy. This makes 1 decent size for 1 adult. Make it as a THICK pancake mix and fry in grease to make beaver tails, add favorite topping.

[dioncat]

ooooh hot...loooks yummy

[acerb45666555]

i eat that stuff all the time.

[oldskoolscout]

Thans, Glad you like it.

More to come in the future.

Yours in Scouting

Old Skool Scout

[oldskoolscout]

hehe thanx

No moustache, thanks. There is limit to my Baden-Powell admiration.

Keep on checking my videos, the best is yet to come!

[oldskoolscout]

Not really no, as long as you make sure that the ash is fine enough. It doesn't hurt to check for small coals though. Quite a lot of cultures bake their (ultrathin) bread like this.

[ashcaw]

Cool, nice to see some traditional cooking methods being used. Dosent the underneath of the bannock pickup all the dirt/ash from what its sitting on though?

[oldskoolscout]

Well I never done it before and I turned out pretty good actually.

I think the trick is to use enough ashes and make sure the bannock is not too thick.

[Zanntaga]

i bet it'll take a couple tries before a person can make bannock just right that way, eh. one question, was it good once it was finnished?