Hopes are a bit higher this time for my bannocks, I've taken inspiration from multiple different recipes, but mostly following the guidance of one very nice cree grandma on YouTube. Though every recipe I found made it's flour measurements by volume instead of weight, which I detest, but I'll roll with it as much as I can.

Tools: 1 cast iron frying pan, great value flour, milk, kosher salt, baking powder, sugar, and at the behest of many of you - corn oil

Hypothesis: with much better and expressive ingredients, I have high hopes for this batch to be some tasty light fry bread, and if it goes well, I very much intend to start making bannocks for my family fairly regularly

Feel free to ask me any questions about this upcoming series or about these bannocks, and I will do my best to answer and respond to everyone 😁

Update 1: 2 cups of flour were added a bowl along with a teaspoon each of sugar, salt, and baking powder. The drys were mixed and a thick layer of corn oil was put in the pan and set to medium to start heating. It would seem I undercooked my last batch of bannocks, so this time I intend to cook it slower with more oil.

A cup of milk was then added, which makes the dry/wet ratio a 2-1 instead of a 4-3 that it was with the game accurate bannocks, resulting in a much less sticky, but much more shaggy dough that took some convincing to hold itself together. I was sure to tamp them out into 2 thin sheets of dough, and so far, I'm extremely optimistic that this will turn out tasty 😁

Update 2: this batch seemed to be done in only about 15-20 minutes. 2 cups of flour is admittedly more than 200 grams, but I'm surprised by how big these turned out to be. The crust from one of them broke off as I was flipping and if the taste of it is anything to go by, these are gonna be delicious 😁 though I am ravenously hungry, so maybe my opinion is being skewed. But it will make it easier to put myself in Will and Astrids shoes this way.

A few things I've prepared to pair with the bannock, Welches grape jelly, cherry yogurt, the last bit of some homemade mayhaw jam

Tasting: these bannocks were certainly miles ahead of the last batch, but bread is still bread, and it didn't have much flavor beyond a simple, toasty flatbread. It is less dense than the previous iteration, while still being fairly crunchy in the cryst. Where it truly shined was alongside the jams and yogurt. Acting more as a sturdy base upon which to build other flavors. It puts off more crumbs than the game accurate version, but is still pretty sturdy and would make good food for the road. I would definitely prefer it to starving, and would make a good snack while waiting for an aurora to pass 😁

From here on, I'm just discussing this mini series of posts, so keep reading if that interests you. I'll try my best to post a new recipe weekly on Monday afternoon. While this was a shorter post, I believe the others will allow much longer form posting as bannocks unfortunately don't have much going for them on their own in my experience. But I'm eager to hear what you guys think! Next week will probably be one you wouldn't expect for this early on, but as luck would have it, I already have the main ingredient!

The pic post as always