bannock
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From Old English bannuc, from Old Irish bannach, based on Latin pānicum (“millet”). Doublet of bonnag.
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bannock (usually uncountable, plural bannocks)
- (especially Scotland, Northern England) An unleavened bread made with barley, wheat, or oatmeal.
- 1894, Joseph Jacobs, “More English Fairy Tales”, in The Wee Bannock, D. Nutt:
- So she baked two oatmeal bannocks, and set them on to the fire to harden. After a while, the old man came in, and sat down beside the fire, and takes one of the bannocks, and snaps it through the middle.
- (Canada) A biscuit bread made of wheat flour or cornmeal, fat, and sometimes baking powder, typically baked over a fire, wrapped around a stick or in a pan.
- 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 8, in Klee Wyck[1]:
- “The boats are coming!” The cry rang through the village. Women left their bannock-baking, their basketweaving and hurried to the shore.
- 2007, Gail Anderson-Dargatz, Turtle Valley, Vintage Canada, →ISBN, page 54:
- My father’s bannock was nothing but lard, flour, salt, and baking powder patted into big rounds and cooked on sticks over a campfire.
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Indigenous Canadian breads
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