This afternoon I came home during my lunch break and made a recipe for "Basic Bannock" from a backpacking book I made photocopies of because I'm too cheap to buy my own copy. Anyway, the recipe was really easy and you just put the little dough patties on a greased skillet and cook 'em till they're brown on the top and bottom and cooked through.
They were good.
When I went back to work, I started thinking, as those who love bread but don't have an oven will do, if I could make more bread-like things on the stove. I really love scones, but to buy one in Japan that is decent really takes a chunk of change. Could I combine my favorite scone recipe with this bannock recipe to make a bread worthy of breaking my fast every morning?
Tonight, I answered that question with what I have dubbed "Skillet Skones."
Ingredients:
1 cup all purpose flour
1/4 cup sugar (any kind)
1tsp baking powder
1/2tsp salt
1/4 cup milk
2Tbs butter
hand full of dried fruit (opt.)
Directions:
1. Mix all dry ingredients in a mixing bowl. Slowly add milk until dough is binded (bound?).
2. Melt butter on skillet over med or med-low heat.
3. Divide dough into 4 equal parts and form them into balls. Then squish the balls onto the hot, buttered skillet until they're about a 1/4 inch thick.
4. Keeping the heat not-too-high so you don't burn them, lightly brown one side and then the other by flipping the skones. When you think the middle has lost it's dough-y-ness eat. Enjoy. Tell your friends without ovens.
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This morning I made these again. Here's what I did and here's what happened:
1. Made 5 skones instead of 4. Much better portions. Yeah, I still ate them all myself.
2. Put in 3Tbs. dry milk instead of 1/4cup milk. No prob. Added water to bind.
3. Burnt one side. Really need to watch - they have little liquid and cook quick.
4. Melted the butter then added it to the dough and mixed before adding water.
5. Used 1/2cup all purpose and 1/2cup wheat flour.
Try it TallE.
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