bannock

plural bannocks · alternative bannik

1. Northern EnglandScotlandespeciallyuncountableusuallyAn unleavened bread, usually made with barleymeal, wheatmeal, or oatmeal; sometimes of peasemeal or otherwise.

   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.

   1894, Joseph Jacobs, “More English Fairy Tales”, in The Wee Bannock, D. Nutt

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   "It was till lately believed by the ploughmen of Clydesdale, that if they repeated the rhyme Fairy, fairy, bake me a bannock and roast me a collop, And I'll gie ye a spurtle off my gadend! three several times on turning their cattle at the terminations of ridges, they would find the said fare prepared for them on reaching the end of the fourth furrow."

   1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 353

2. CanadauncountableusuallyA 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.

   My father’s bannock was nothing but lard, flour, salt, and baking powder patted into big rounds and cooked on sticks over a campfire.

   2007, Gail Anderson-Dargatz, Turtle Valley, Vintage Canada, →ISBN, page 54

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   “The boats are coming!” The cry rang through the village. Women left their bannock-baking, their basketweaving and hurried to the shore.

   1941, Emily Carr, chapter 8, in Klee Wyck

   1. CanadaspecificallyuncountableusuallyThis or any similar traditional bread when made by indigenous Americans, originally from native sources such as maize or pseudocereals and plants with starchy roots

      Synonyms: Indian bread, alatiq, skaan

plural Bannocks

1. A member of a tribe of the Northern Paiute, an indigenous people of the Great Basin.