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Ben's Damper Recipe.
Makes a round 14 inch damper, serves 25-30
people.
Ingredients:
7 Cups of self raising flour
170 gram unsalted butter or
margarine, melted
5½ cups
of water
1 teaspoon
salt
Method:
You will need
an open pit fire, burnt down to hot coals.
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Clean a
large camp oven, then wipe the insides with cooking oil or
butter or margarine.
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Mix
together the melted butter (or margarine) with the salt and
water.
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Stir the
mixture into the flour to form a moist dough.
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Place the
dough into the camp oven, sprinkle the surface with dried SR
flour, cover with the camp oven lid.
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Scoop a
small amount of coals from the fire, place the camp oven on
the coals then shovel a lot of coals onto the lid of the oven
and allow to cook for about 40 mins.
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Carefully
lift the lid off the oven, tap the damper, if it sounds hollow
it is cooked, if not, replace the lid, refresh the coals and
give it a further 5 mins.
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When
cooked, remove the damper from the oven, cover with a tea towel
and let it rest for about 10 minutes.
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Serve warm
with golden syrup and Billy Tea.
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