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🍲 Damper (Australian Campfire Bread)

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Damper is Australian bushman's bread, made while camping or "waltzing matilda" (carrying a swag around looking for work). It is meant to be made outside by a campfire.

Damper (Australian Campfire Bread)
Damper (Australian Campfire Bread) — photograph by N.Goodwin, licensed CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia.
50 minutes2–53
Cook for servings as written The source's own quantities, rounded to the nearest mark on a cup or a spoon. A line carrying a second number of its own — a weight in another unit, a count of pieces — is left as written.

Ingredients

  • 1 large cup self-raising flour
  • 1 generous pinch salt
  • scant ¼ cup water (more and it will be as tough as an old boot)

Method

  1. Add salt to flour.
  2. Add water, then mix and form into a round loaf.
  3. Dig a 1 foot-deep hole near a fire, and fill it with 2 shovels of hot coals and ash.
  4. Add damper mixture to a greased camp oven (traditional cast iron round pot with lid).
  5. Cook in the hole for a maximum of 40 minutes. If undercooked it will be flat and rubbery.
  6. Your first try may be inedible. Keep trying, you'll soon be an expert.
Where this came from. Adapted from Damper (Australian Campfire Bread) in the Wikibooks Cookbook, written by its contributors and published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page changes the layout and nothing else: the ingredients, the quantities and the steps are the source's. If you improve on it, the Cookbook welcomes edits.

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