different between bannock vs frybread

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

• nonback

English

Alternative forms

• fry bread

Etymology

fry +? bread

Noun

frybread (usually uncountable, plural frybreads)

1. (US) Fried bread.

Synonyms

• Baptist cakes
• dough gobs
• dough goddy
• doughbelly
• doughboy
• fried dough
• holy poke
• huffjuffs
• puffy sticks
• scone

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