Bannock

Quick meaning: Bannock is a noun meaning (especially Scotland, Northern England) An unleavened bread, usually made with barleymeal, wheatmeal, or oatmeal; sometimes of peasemeal or otherwise.

Meaning

(especially Scotland, Northern England) An unleavened bread, usually made with barleymeal, wheatmeal, or oatmeal; sometimes of peasemeal or otherwise.

More Meanings

1. (Canada) A biscuit bread made of wheat flour or cornmeal, fat, and sometimes baking powder, typically baked over a fire, wrapped around a stick or in a pan.

Example Sentences

My father’s bannock was nothing but lard, flour, salt, and baking powder patted into big rounds and cooked on sticks over a campfire.

“The boats are coming!” The cry rang through the village. Women left their bannock-baking, their basketweaving and hurried to the shore.

So she baked two oatmeal bannocks, and set them on to the fire to harden. After a while, the old man came in, and sat down beside the fire, and takes one of the bannocks, and snaps it through the middle.

Word Forms

• bannocks
• bannik

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bannik, bearmeal, porridge, brose, oatbread, blackbread.

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