Did you know that ‘damper’ is also used for the sort of bread-on-a-stick much beloved of those of the Scouting persuasion, cooked and eaten round a campfire? Mix a flour and water dough with a pinch of salt, take a handful, roll into a sausage shape, then wind in a spiral round a twig. Hold over a fire until cooked. Delicious, but invariably burnt, which puts a bit of a dampener on the proceedings. I also watched a TV programme with the British survival expert Ray Mears in the Australian outback where he cooked a whole loaf in the same way. Show-off!
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Sarah Turley:
May 20th, 2015 at 10:41 am
Did you know that ‘damper’ is also used for the sort of bread-on-a-stick much beloved of those of the Scouting persuasion, cooked and eaten round a campfire? Mix a flour and water dough with a pinch of salt, take a handful, roll into a sausage shape, then wind in a spiral round a twig. Hold over a fire until cooked. Delicious, but invariably burnt, which puts a bit of a dampener on the proceedings. I also watched a TV programme with the British survival expert Ray Mears in the Australian outback where he cooked a whole loaf in the same way. Show-off!