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Drover's Damper

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Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Servings: 5–10 Difficulty: medium

Categories: Bread, Camping, Baked

Tags: australian, baking, camping, medium difficulty, recipes for bread, recipes using butter, recipes using milk, recipes using self-raising flour, recipes using sugar

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3ADrover%27s_Damper)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3ADrover%27s%20Damper&oldid=4522392

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

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

Directions

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

Notes

This cookbook also has an "ordinary" damper recipe.

You can do this using a hole near the fire in a greased camp oven or greased aluminium foil in a barbecue.

If you aren't outdoors, just add mixture to greased bread tin, brush with milk and cook in a hot oven, reducing heat until cooked (20 minutes).

You can add dried fruit to make "Johnny Cake".

As a variation, add grated cheese.

Use beer instead of milk to make "Beer Damper".