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bannock [< Scots Gaelic bannach thin oatmeal cake] Esp. North

n. See 1913 and 1941 quotes.
See also: baking-powder bannock bush bread galette grease bannock trail biscuit
- 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.