bannocks

Noun

bannock (usually uncountable, plural bannocks)

1. (Northern England, Scotland, especially, usually) An unleavened bread, usually made with barleymeal, wheatmeal, or oatmeal; sometimes of peasemeal or otherwise.
   • "It was till lately believed by the ploughmen of Clydesdale, that if they repeated the rhyme
     Fairy, fairy, bake me a bannock and roast me a collop,
     And I'll gie ye a spurtle off my gadend!
     three several times on turning their cattle at the terminations of ridges, they would find the said fare...1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 353
2. (Canada, usually) 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.
   • “The boats are coming!” The cry rang through the village. Women left their bannock-baking, their basketweaving and hurried to the shore.1941, Emily Carr, chapter 8, in Klee Wyck
   1. (Canada, specifically, usually) This or any similar traditional bread when made by indigenous Americans, originally from native sources such as maize or pseudocereals and plants with starchy roots

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