How to Make Cowboy Bead

 I will tell you how to make bannock (bread). It is cowboy bread and super easy. Good to know for emergencies. It actually works great over an open fire in a heavy iron skillet. Get a 5 gallon paint bucket and lid and fill it full with a twenty pound bag of flour. As you are filling it mix a can of Clabber Girl baking power in with the flour and mix it up well- then it is ready and stores fine for months. When you want bread take some of the flour mixture from the bucket and add cold water mixing it together until you have a ball of bread dough. Flatten it out to fill an entire frying pan about an inch  and a half thick. Grease the frying pan with vegetable oil and heat the bread slowly. You can flip the bread like a pancake if you are skillful. Brown both sides of the bread and make sure the center is cooked too. Never cut bannock; instead break it. I used to cut it horizontally and fill with tuna or meat from a can and whatever sauce I had- or jelly or ketchup. Instant bread, low fat and good. The five pound bucket provides enough bread for the better part of a month. If you add some Krusteaz instant blueberry pancake mix to the five gallon bucket the bread turns out somewhat like a giant blueberry muffin.