Delicious damper!

Goodstart Endeavour Hills – Barnsley Drive shares with us their favourite damper recipe - one you can cook at home!

Ingredients

• 3 cups self-raising flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 180ml milk – if the mixture is too dry, add a little more milk
• 1 teaspoon caster sugar
• 1/3 cup chilled butter, chilled extra flour as needed

Method

1. Mix the flour, salt and sugar together into a bowl
2. Rub the butter into the flour with your fingertips
3. Add milk slowly and mix to form a soft dough
4. Lightly dust chopping board with flour. Knead softly until smooth
5. Shape the dough into a round loaf, brush with milk and cut a cross in the top surface of the dough.

For oven cooking

6. Grease and dust with flour a round cake tin or a flat baking pan.
7. Place dough in the pan and bake in a preheated oven at 190° C (375° F) for30– 40 minutes.

For campfire cooking

• Grease the camp oven (Dutch oven) and dust with flour. Add bread dough and cover.
• Place in your campfire, cover with hot ashes and coals and bake for about 30 minutes.

 
Variations: Add ½ cup of cheese or ½ cup of sultanas when mixing ingredients together
 
Source: NAIDOC 2017 Activity Pack www.datsip.qld.au/naidoc
 

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