noun
bannock
BAN-uk/ˈbænək/
A flat bread traditionally made in Scotland and Indigenous North American communities.
The cook turns the bannock on the hot griddle beside the fire.
Etymology
Gaelic bannach meant 'a cake,' here reflected in a thick, flat bread baked on the hearth or under ashes—the traditional cooking image behind the modern bread.
In context
you can talk about the spice, the sameness of flat bread versus bannock
in school where you took bannock for lunch
More examples
- They shared warm bannock with the evening stew.
- The recipe makes two small bannocks.
- His grandmother taught him how to make bannock.
Forms
bannock · bannocks
Similar words
- flatbread
- Covers many kinds of thin bread from different traditions.
- scone
- Usually names an individually shaped baked bread or cake.