Old Home Ec Cooking Terms Video - Fantastic!

These videos are stubborn - sometimes you have to push the play button twice *and* sometimes the video will be jerky the first time it plays! It's always fine on the second play though. Enjoy!

This is a bere bannock

A poke o' bere meal, a bere bannock and a plate full o' bere meal.

One of Erlend's favorite foods in the universe is the trusty ol' bere bannock: a flat bread made out of "bere meal." What is bere meal?? An ancient grain with a very rich and strong flavor. Here's how Wikipedia describes it:

"Beremeal is a whole grain 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."

I still haven't managed to get it right. Every bere bannock I attempt to create becomes either hard as a rock, burned to cinders or rubbery as a bounced check.

I did manage to create a perfect Chinese Fighting Bannock though...