How to bake Bannock bread over the fire, celebrating Imbolc in the forest and leaving no trace. скачать в хорошем качестве

How to bake Bannock bread over the fire, celebrating Imbolc in the forest and leaving no trace.

Bannock bread is a simple recipe that originated in Ireland, Scotland and Northern England centuries ago, aside from being a staple food it was also used to ritually celebrate the change of the seasons on the Celtic calendar. It is traditionally a flat and unleavened bread made from barley flour or oatmeal dough and usually cooked on a skillet, embers of a fire or a stone, but in this video I brake from tradition and cook it wrapped around a stick and use wholemeal wheat flour, so please join me by the fire celebrating Imbolc (spring) in the forest. Sláinte mhaith! Bannock is a versatile recipe, at its most basic you can use just flour and water but you are free add and experiment with any berries, nuts, flours or whatever suits your tastes, however bear in mind wholemeal and 'strong' flours are general better at holding together than the more refined varieties. Here is my recipe for 1 person: 1 cup of whole meal flour. 2 Tbsp. milk powder. 1 tsp. baking powder. 1 tsp. sugar. 1 tsp. veg oil or butter. Pinch of salt . A sprinkle of blue berries. Half cup of water or enough to give a play-dough like consistency to the mix. All the dry ingredients can be mixed together in a ziplock bag for storage and carriage convenience and the oil and water added when you are ready to cook. Mix all the ingredients in a flour dusted container into a dough and roll out into a long flat strip no thicker than 10-15mm. Save a bit of flour to dust the strip to prevent it sticking to everything .Twist it carefully around your stick with the bark peeled off on one end. (make sure the stick you use is NOT from a toxic variety of tree like Yew or you are not going to have a good culinary experience) Set the stick into the ground near the fire and have the dough end as near as you can comfortable hold your hand close to the fire for about 5-10 seconds and keep rotating it until you get a nice even golden brown colour and not black spots like I did :) Enjoy ! #wyrdwoodsireland