different between bannock vs beremeal

English

Alternative forms

• bannik

Etymology

From Old English bannuc, Gaelic bannach. Doublet of bonnag.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bæ.n?k/

Noun

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, D. Nutt, The Wee Bannock:

     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.
   • 2007, Gail Anderson-Dargatz, Turtle Valley, Vintage Canada, ?ISBN, p. 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.

Translations

Derived terms

• currant-bannock
• bannock puncher

Related terms

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

Anagrams

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English

Etymology

bere +? meal

Noun

beremeal (uncountable)

1. (Scotland) A wholegrain flour made from bere, a variety of barley grown in northern Scotland, Orkney, and the Shetland Islands. It is commonly used in making bannocks and ale.

Usage notes

• Bere, bear or baird is the four- or six-row barley, hardier and coarser than ordinary two-row barley (The Concise Scots Dictionary, Ed Mairi Robinson. Aberdeen University Press. 1987.)