Australian Damper
Australian Damper
This is the bread made by drovers in the Australian outback. It's great camping food, as it's traditonally cooked in the coals of a campfire. — dale!This recipe is courtesy of dale! via Food.com.
Servings
4
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cup plain flour
- 5 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon butter
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 cup milk, fresh, powdered (or you can just use water)
Directions
- The best way to make this is to mix together the dry ingredients, then add the liquid and butter and mix well, and then knead it for about 5 minutes.
- Then, wrap it in a double layer of greased foil and place it in the coals of the campfire, poking it in and retrieving it a bit later hoping that it's done.
- I've also had it where you just throw the dough into the coals and pull off the blacked outside when it's done and eat the inner part.
- To cook it in the oven, preheat to 350 degrees F.
- Combine the flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar, and mix well. Rub or cut in the butter. Stir in the milk to form a dough.
- Shape into a flattened ball and place on a greased baking sheet or in a round cake tin and bake for about 30 minutes.
- Doing it this way, though, is not traditional and just won't taste the same.
- You eat it right away while it's still hot in thick slices with butter, golden syrup, jam, or vegemite.
- This is great camping food and always brings back happy camping memories.