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By Roger Pizey
Published 2013
At its most basic, a damper was a bread made of just flour, salt and water and was cooked over a campfire (wrapped around a stick) or buried in among its coals by Australian settlers. In fact, the name ‘damper’ comes from the fact that the fire was damped down to allow the bread to be cooked in the hot coals. This ‘bread’ remains popular to this day but now comes in a multitude of flavours, both sweet and savoury. I like the classic combination of apple and cinnamon here.
