Damper Bread

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Floyd on Oz

By Keith Floyd

Published 1991

  • About

If you happen to be a stockman on one of those vast Australian cattle ranches when you work out in the bush for days and days on end, you have to be a pretty self-reliant type. As long as you have a billy can to make tea, a pot to cook the stew in, a bit of beef and the wherewithal to make some kind of bread, you can survive – I wouldn’t exactly say happily, but at least you won’t starve.

Damper bread is very, very simple to make, but you need what they call a camp stove. A camp sto