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bannock
[< Scots Gaelic bannach thin oatmeal cake]
Esp. North
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
See 1913 and 1941 quotes.
Quotations
1878
A Bakery is amongst the latest additions to the industrial enterprises of Battleford. Good-bye to "flap-jack" and "bannock."
1913
Flour bannocks, baked with water and a little pemmican grease, without any rising, and, generally, only half "done," by exposing them on twigs and frying pan before the camp fire, were a luxury. . . .
1941
Bannock--The stand-by of the fur country. Flour, lard, baking powder, salt and water; readily made . . . with or without frying pan; does not freeze and is sustaining. Bannock, Scotsmen and furs--all first cousins.
1965
Nobody is starving in the village across Store Creek, although the poorer Indians are eating bannock (flour-and-water pancakes) and drinking tea bross (tea broth with lard, oatmeal and sugar) while whites eat steak and bacon and eggs.