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Damper (Australian Campfire Bread)

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Damper (Australian Campfire Bread)

International Bread & Baking recipe from the Wikibooks Cookbook.

Ingredients

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)

Instructions

Add salt to flour.
Add water, then mix and form into a round loaf.
Dig a 1 foot-deep hole near a fire, and fill it with 2 shovels of hot coals and ash.
Add damper mixture to a greased camp oven (traditional cast iron round pot with lid).
Cook in the hole for a maximum of 40 minutes. If undercooked it will be flat and rubbery.
Your first try may be inedible. Keep trying, you'll soon be an expert.

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