See also: Bannock

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traditional beremeal bannock as made on Orkney, Scotland
 
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From Middle English bannoke, from Old English bannuc, from Old Irish bannach, based on Latin pānicum (millet). Doublet of bonnag.

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bannock (usually uncountable, plural bannocks)

  1. (especially Scotland, Northern England) An unleavened bread made with barley, wheat, or oatmeal.
    • 1894, Joseph Jacobs, “More English Fairy Tales”, in The Wee Bannock, D. Nutt:
      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.
  2. (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.
    • 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 8, in Klee Wyck[1]:
      “The boats are coming!” The cry rang through the village. Women left their bannock-baking, their basketweaving and hurried to the shore.
    • 2007, Gail Anderson-Dargatz, Turtle Valley, Vintage Canada, →ISBN, page 54:
      My father’s bannock was nothing but lard, flour, salt, and baking powder patted into big rounds and cooked on sticks over a campfire.
    1. (specifically) 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
      Synonyms: Indian bread, alatiq, skaan

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  • frybread, dog bread (US terms for specific breads which would all be called bannock in Canada)

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