🍲 Drover's Damper

Name: Drover's Damper
Total time: 50 min
Ingredients: 2 cups self-raising flour; ¼ teaspoon salt; 2 teaspoons sugar; 1 tablespoon butter; 1 cup milk

Bread · 5 ingredients · 8 steps

'''Drover's damper''' is Australian bread, made by stockmen while taking care of or rounding up stock. It is meant to be made outside by a campfire. This is the "flash" version, made when butter and milk are available.

50 minutes5–103

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Ingredients

2 cups self-raising flour
¼ teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons sugar
1 tablespoon butter
1 cup milk

Method

Add salt to flour, then add sugar.
Rub in butter.
Mix in milk to make a medium-soft dough.
Knead lightly on flat surface until smooth.
Pat dough into a round shape.
Place damper mixture on coals or hot ash. Cook for maximum of 40 minutes.
Discard burnt outside and eat the inside.
Serve with butter, (golden syrup) or jam.

Where this came from. Adapted from Drover's Damper in the Wikibooks Cookbook, written by its contributors and published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page changes the layout and nothing else: the ingredients, the quantities and the steps are the source's. If you improve on it, the Cookbook welcomes edits.

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