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Damper

Name: Damper
Total time: 50 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Australia
Ingredients: 400g All-purpose flour; 1 tbsp Baking Powder; 1 tsp Salt; 40g Butter; 250ml Milk; To taste Honey; To taste (for serving) Butter

Dessert

⏱ 50 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐

Bread of flour, water, and salt baked in campfire ashes — a humble bread from Australia's pioneer days.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Damper is a humble bread that 19th-century Australian stockmen and pioneers baked buried in campfire ashes in the bush. It can be made with just flour, water, and salt and needs no rising. Still a camping and outdoor staple, it's eaten fresh with butter and golden syrup.

🌆 Where it's eaten: Deep in the Australian outback on red earth, under a sky full of stars, damper is dug out of the campfire ashes and broken open in a cloud of steam.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

All-purpose flour 400g
Baking Powder 1 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Butter 40g
Milk 250ml
Honey To taste
Butter To taste (for serving)

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Mix the flour, baking powder, and salt and rub in the butter.
Add the milk and quickly bring together into a soft dough.
Shape into a flat round and score the top.
Dust with flour.
Bake at 200°C for 30 minutes until it sounds hollow when tapped underneath.
Cut into thick slices and top with butter and honey.

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