bannock

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As soon as the bannock is stiff enough to stand on its edge it is taken out of the pan to make room for more, and placed before a rock near the fire, or on a pair of forked sticks until it has had time, as nearly as can be calculated, to cook halfway through.

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  1. noun A flat, usually unleavened bread made of oatmeal or barley flour.
  2. noun Northern U.S., especially New England Thin cornbread baked on a griddle.

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  • The centre's café offers a variation of the catering menu-smoked salmon on bannock, a turkey club with chokecherry jelly, and salmon chowder, for example. —  The Georgia Straight - News And Views
  • Some one came out, gave him oat-cake or peasemeal bannock, and then wheeled him to the next door; and in this way, going from house to house, he obtained a fair livelihood My brother Sam lived with our grandfather in Edinburgh, and attended the High School, which was in the old town, and, like other boys, he was given pennies to buy bread; but the boys preferred oysters, which they bought from the fishwives, the bargain being, a dozen oysters for a halfpenny, and a kiss for the thirteenth. —  Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville
  • A large cake or bannock was prepared, in which a ring or other small article was put, and the young person whose lot it was to secure the piece of cake or bannock with the concealed article was looked upon as being as lucky as the individual who picked the ring twice out of the brose. —  The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales
  • Wrapping a piece of cotton cloth tightly about a small stick he ignited one end at his neighbor's hearth, and like an humble Prometheus carried the smouldering gift to his little world and its belated breakfast The kitchen was the favorite gathering place of humble New England families and it was there they were best seen and understood; there the spinning wheel hummed while the pot was boiling or the bannock baking; there stockings and boots were dried by the open fire and the latter daily greased. —  Confessions of Boyhood
  • She crept on her knees to the slicker and seized one piece of bannock, crawled out of the firelight stealthily, then sprang to her feet and began running straight across the meadow toward Skinner Twenty yards she covered when a bullet sang over her head. —  The Quirt
 

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  1. Middle English bannok, from Old English bannuc, of Celtic origin.

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  1. Scots, from Middle English bannok, from Anglo-Saxon bannuc, from Gael, bannach, also bonnach, = Irish boinneog, a cake.
 

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