Good Ol Aussie Damper Recipes

AUSSIE DAMPER - SWEET OR SAVOURY- YOU DECIDE

A really easy damper recipe- I remember making these when I was still at school. To make a savoury damper, you can really add any herbs of choice, such as chopped parsley, chives, cracked black pepper. Damper is usually served with lashings of butter or for a sweet damper with butter, honey, golden syrup or strawberry jam

Provided by Jubes

Categories Quick Breads

Time 40m

Yield 1 damper, 6-8 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 8

Aussie Damper - Sweet or Savoury- You Decide image

Steps:

Preheat oven to 180-190°F.
Using a large mixing bowl, stir together the flour and the salt.
Add the butter and rub it in with your fingertips.
Add the milk and stir it in with a rounded blad knife/butterknife. The dough should be fairly soft, but not too sticky.
Tourn out onto a lightly floured board and shape into a soft smooth ball.
Place the damper ball onto a baking sheet and flatten gently. Cut a cross into the top of the damper and brush with a little milk.
Bake for 30 minutes or until golden.
Variations- for the cheese damper add 100 grams of cheese before adding the milk. Add any extra herbs of choice. Sprinkle with a little extra cheese before baking.
For the sweet damper- add the sweet ingredients with the milk.

Ingredients

250 g self-raising flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
25 g unsalted butter, chilled and cubed
175 ml milk
110 g tasty cheese or 100 g cheddar cheese
2 tablespoons golden syrup or 2 tablespoons honey
2 tablespoons caster sugar
1/4 cup sultana (optional)

AUSTRALIAN DAMPER

Damper Bread was a staple of the early Australian settlers' diet. Traditionally, the dough was cooked directly on the coals of an open fire. If you use this method, have a beer handy in case some of the ashes on the damper are still glowing when you eat it!

Provided by Warren Lower

Categories Bread Quick Bread Recipes

Time 1h

Yield 15

Number Of Ingredients 5

Australian Damper image

Steps:

Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C) Grease a baking sheet.
In a large bowl, stir together the flour and the salt. With pastry blender or your hands, cut in butter. Make a well in the center of the flour mixture and pour in the milk and water. Stir until the dough comes together. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and form into a round loaf 8 inches across. Place the loaf onto the prepared pan and using a sharp knife, cut a cross in the top.
Bake for 25 minutes in the preheated oven, then lower the temperature to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) and continue to bake for an additional 5 to 10 minutes. The loaf should be golden brown and the bottom should sound hollow when tapped.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 132.9 calories, Carbohydrate 25.5 g, Cholesterol 3.3 mg, Fat 1.4 g, Fiber 0.9 g, Protein 3.8 g, SaturatedFat 0.7 g, Sodium 590.5 mg, Sugar 0.8 g

Ingredients

4 cups self-rising flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon butter, softened
1 cup milk
½ cup water

EASY AUSTRALIAN DAMPER

Damper is a traditional Australian bread. There are probably as many variations as there are people to cook it! This recipe comes from the Australian Women's Weekly cookbook "Muffins, Scones and Breads". This is a very useful recipe for those times when you want to make bread, but don't have time to use yeast. Damper has a hard crust and a fairly close texture. Its not a light bread (not the sort of bread you'd use to make dainty cucumber sandwiches, for example!), but it is tasty and is also good toasted. I have found various surces of information about Damper on the internet and learned that originally Damper would have been cooked in the ashes of a bush fire. The ashes were flattened and the Damper was placed there to cook for 10 minutes. Then the Damper was covered with ashes and coked for another 20-30 minutes. The Damper was cooked until it sounded hollow when tapped. This recipe was posted for Zaar World Tour 2005.

Provided by Mrs B

Categories Breads

Time 1h

Yield 1 round, 4-6 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 6

Easy Australian Damper image

Steps:

Pre-heat oven to 375F / 190C /gas mark 4.
Sift flour, salt and sugar into a large bowl, rub in the butter.
Stir in milk and enough water to mix to a sticky dough.
Turn dough onto a floured surface, knead until just smooth.
Place dough onto a greased baking tray and press into a 16cm round.
Cut a cross in the dough, about 1cm deep; brush with a little extra milk then sprinkle with a little extra flour; bake for about 45 minutes; lift onto a wire rack to cool.

Ingredients

525 g self-raising flour (plus extra for top of bread)
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons caster sugar (superfine)
40 g butter
125 ml milk (plus extra for top of bread)
310 ml water (approximately)

GOOD OL' AUSSIE DAMPER BREAD

I made this on Australia Day this year (26th Jan) and it was absolutely beautiful. Quick and easy. Only thing I would say is keep an eye on it when in oven as it didn't take as long as recipe said.

Provided by Jamie Oliver wannabe

Categories Quick Breads

Time 45m

Yield 4-10 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 6

Good Ol' Aussie Damper Bread image

Steps:

Sift the flour and salt into a bowl and mix in the sugar.
Rub in the butter with your (clean) hands until a fine breadcrumb texture is achieved.
Form a well in the top of the flour, pour in the milk and water and mix well with a knife until the dough comes clean from the sides of the bowl.
Turn out onto a floured board and knead until smooth and silky, like a baby's bottom!
Shape into a moulded loaf, (some people cut a deep cross in the top) and bake in a preheated oven, 200C/400F for 25 minutes. Then lower the temperature to 180C/375F and cook a further 10-15 minutes until done. The loaf should be a light golden brown colour and sound hollow when tapped.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 540.6, Fat 9.2, SaturatedFat 5.2, Cholesterol 23.8, Sodium 2094.9, Carbohydrate 97.7, Fiber 3.4, Sugar 2.4, Protein 14.4

Ingredients

4 cups self-raising flour
3/4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons sugar
2 tablespoons butter, at room temperature
1 cup milk
1/2 cup water