Damper Bread Recipe

This is a great simple camp bread that can be cooked on a dry frying pan or wrapped around a stick. It gets its name from the kind of fire needed to cook it. You don’t want a roaring flaming fire (that would be good for boiling water). Rather, you need a fire that has been ‘damped down’ (not with water – just raked aside a bit) to form a good even bed of embers.

Ingredients

• 1 fist full of self-raising flour
• 1/2 tsp sugar
• pinch salt
• 1/2 tsp butter
• up to 1/2 cup of milk or water or a banana

Method

1. Mix the flour, sugar and salt in a bowl
2. Rub the butter through the flour mix until it looks like breadcrumbs
3. Mix in the liquid a little at a time. It is very easy to put too much liquid in and very hard to rescue if you do!
4. Either
   1. Roll into a snake shape and wind it around a clean, pealed, dry stick and hold it over the embers a fire for 20ish minutes, rotating often. Tip: holding it in flames will burn the outside before the inside is cooked
      or
   2. Form it in to a 1cm thick circle and dry fry it on a pan over embers (not fierce heat) 5-10 minutes per side