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Damper (Australian Campfire Bread)

Damper (Australian Campfire Bread) — a bread recipe, 3 ingredients, about 50 min.

Serves 2 · 50 min · Bread

contains gluten

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Ingredients

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  • 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)

Steps

  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.

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Source

Wikibooks Cookbook — adapted under CC BY-SA 3.0