In the heart of the Australian outback, where the aroma of eucalyptus fills the air and the vast landscapes paint a picturesque canvas, lies a culinary treasure that embodies the spirit of the land – the Australian rosemary damper. This iconic bread, a staple in the diet of early settlers and bushmen, has stood the test of time and continues to tantalize taste buds with its rustic charm and distinctive flavor. As we embark on a culinary journey to discover the best recipe for this beloved dish, let us immerse ourselves in the rich history and cultural significance of the Australian rosemary damper.
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ROSEMARY AND OLIVE DAMPER
Add rosemary and olives to a traditional Australian bread to make it a bit fancy. Damper is an easy bread made without yeast like soda bread.
Provided by Melissa Goodwin
Categories main dishes
Time 45m
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 220C or 200C fan-forced.
- Rub butter into flour and baking powder until the mix resembles fine breadcrumbs.
- Gently mix in the rosemary, garlic and olives.
- Make a well in the mix and add the milk. Knead the milk into the dough.
- Gradually add water, kneading between each addition until you have a dough consistency.
- Turn dough onto a baking tray. Slash the top with a sharp knife and bake for 40 minutes or until the bread sounds hollow when you tap the bottom.
- Serve with butter or a good olive oil.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 364 calories, Carbohydrate 50 grams carbohydrates, Cholesterol 17 milligrams cholesterol, Fat 17 grams fat, Fiber 6 grams fiber, Protein 8 grams protein, SaturatedFat 7 grams saturated fat, ServingSize 1, Sodium 482 grams sodium, Sugar 0 grams sugar, TransFat 0 grams trans fat, UnsaturatedFat 8 grams unsaturated fat
TRADITIONAL AUSSIE DAMPER
This easy damper recipe is a traditional Australian icon made by swagmen back in the day and still enjoyed by Aussie familes. Perfect for afternoon tea with a pot of tea.
Provided by Marie Muccio
Categories afternoon tea Side Dish
Time 40m
Number Of Ingredients 5
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 180°
- Add flour and salt into a bowl, rub in cubed butter until mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.
- Make a well in the centre, add the milk and water, mix with a knife until dough starts to come together.
- Transfer to a lightly floured surface and gently knead and shape into a ball. Place on a greased oven tray. Flatten slightly so that you have a round approximately 15-16cm in diameter.
- Using a sharp knife, cut two slits across dough like a cross, approximately 1cm deep.Brush top of dough with milk.
- Bake for 30 minutes, or until golden brown.
ROSEMARY DAMPER
Give your regular damper a herbal lift with this cheesy rosemary version. Serve it as a snack, or alongside your favourite hearty soup.
Categories Side
Time 1h5m
Yield Makes 1 Item
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Melt 15g of the butter in small frying pan. Cook onion, stirring over medium heat about 2 minutes or until onion is soft; cool.
- Sift flour into large bowl; rub in remaining butter. Stir in onion mixture, rosemary and 2/3 cup of the cheese; make well in centre. Stir in enough of the water to mix to a soft dough; knead on lightly floured surface until smooth.
- Place dough onto greased oven tray; pat into 16cm circle. Using sharp knife, cut 1cm deep cross in top of dough. Brush with a little extra milk; sprinkle with remaining cheese.
- Bake, uncovered, in moderate oven about 40 minutes or until damper is golden brown and sounds hollow when tapped.
Nutrition Facts : ServingSize Makes 1 Item
AUSTRALIAN DAMPER
This is the bread made by drovers in the Australian outback. It's great camping food as it's traditonally cooked in the coals of a camp fire.
Provided by dale7793
Categories Breads
Yield 4 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- The best way to make this is to mix together the dry ingredients then add the liquid and butter and mix well and then knead it for about 5 minutes.
- Then wrap it in a double layer of greased foil and place it in the coals of the campfire, poking it in and retrieving it a bit later hoping it's done.
- I've also had it where you just throw the dough into the coals and pull off the blacked outside when it's done and eat the inner part.
- To cook it in the oven preheat to 350 degrees F.
- Combine the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar and mix well. Rub or cut in the butter. Stir in the milk to form a dough.
- Shape into a flattened ball and place on a greased baking sheet or in a round cake tin and bake for about 30 minutes.
- Doing it this way though is not traditional and just won't taste the same.
- You eat it straight away while still hot in thick slices with butter, golden syrup, jam or vegemite.
- This is great camping food and always brings back many happy camping memories.
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
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
DAMPER RECIPE (AUSTRALIAN 3 INGREDIENT BREAD)
This damper recipe is a celebrated Australian 3 Ingredient bread. It's effortless, can be made in an oven or over a coal fired camp. The outside is golden and crunchy with a filling inside.
Provided by Janelle Hama
Categories side
Time 40m
Number Of Ingredients 4
Steps:
- In a large mixing bowl, add flour and plant based butter, massage with your fingers until it resembles a sandy mixture.
- Create a well and add milk, use a fork to mix together until you need to use your hands to knead the dough. Dust your hands with flour and knead for 1 minute. Create a disk with the dough.
- Grease cast iron dutch oven and place dough into the cast iron dutch oven, score dough into 8 pieces, cover with lid and bake in a preheated oven of 200C (392F) for 35-40 minutes.
- Once golden brown and hollow, allow 5 minutes resting before cutting up and serving.
Nutrition Facts : ServingSize 1 g, Calories 132 kcal, Carbohydrate 23 g, Protein 4 g, Fat 3 g, SaturatedFat 1 g, Sodium 322 mg, Fiber 1 g, Sugar 1 g
DAMPER
The damper or bush-bread is a delicious unleavened Australian bread traditionally baked on hot coals but which can also be baked in the oven.
Provided by Mike Benayoun
Categories Bread
Time 55m
Number Of Ingredients 4
Steps:
- Add the flour and baking powder in a bowl.
- Start mixing with a spoon and slowly add in the water (or milk).
- Add the salt and mix with the hands until all the flour is well moistened and it begins to form a ball. If necessary, add water (or milk) or flour to adjust the texture.
- Remove the dough from the bowl and place it on a lightly floured surface, fold it, turn it over and knead it briefly until it is smooth. However, do not knead the dough too much as this will make the damper heavy.
- Preheat the oven to 410°F / 200°C.
- Heat a cast iron pot or Dutch oven in the oven for 5 minutes. Dust the pot with flour and add the dough in it. Flatten the ball of dough to the edges.
- Bake the damper for about 45 minutes or until the top is lightly browned.
- The bread will swell during baking.
- Shake the pot from time to time during baking to ensure even browning.
- The bread is baked when a knife inserted in the center of it comes out clean. The bread should offer a hollow sound when tapped in the center.
- Let the damper sit for 5 to 10 minutes before serving.
5 INGREDIENT AUSTRALIAN DAMPER RECIPE
Damper is such an iconic Australian camping bread, and this easy recipe only needs 5 ingredients. Break apart the crumbly crust and slather it in butter.
Provided by Wandercooks
Categories Side Dish
Time 30m
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Preheat your oven to 180˚C (360˚F), and line a tray with baking paper.
- Next, place the self-raising flour, salt in a large mixing bowl (along with half the rosemary if using). Chop the butter into small cubes, pop it to the flour mix and rub it into the flour with your hands to combine.
- Form a well in the centre, then pour in the milk and water. Give everything a really good stir until it forms a nice dough.
- Divide the dough into four portions for tasty mini dampers, or make one large damper.
- Now pop your dough onto the lined tray and slice a cross into the top using a sharp knife.
- Optional: Garnish with remaining rosemary.
- Bake for around 25 mins at 180˚C (360˚F) until your gorgeous damper is golden brown and delicious. Tap the bottom and your damper should sound hollow - that's when you know you're done!
Nutrition Facts : Calories 282 kcal, Carbohydrate 49 g, Protein 7 g, Fat 6 g, SaturatedFat 3 g, Cholesterol 14 mg, Sodium 633 mg, Fiber 2 g, Sugar 2 g, ServingSize 1 serving
AUSTRALIAN ROSEMARY DAMPER
Damper is best served hot with butter. Cooked damper can be frozen for two months. This came from Australian Women's Weekly - Cooking with Herbs.
Provided by luvcookn
Categories Breads
Time 55m
Yield 4-6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Melt butter in small frying pan, add onion and bacon, stir over medium heat for about 2 minutes or until onion is soft; cool.
- Sift flour into large bowl, rub in extra butter. Stir in onion mixture, rosemary and 2/3 cup of the cheese.
- Make a well in the centre.
- Stir in milk and enough water to mix to a soft dough.
- Knead on lightly floured surface until smooth.
- Place dough onto greased cookie sheet, pat into 16cm (about 6 1/2") circle.
- Using sharp knife, cut a cross into top of dough about 1 cm (1/2") deep.
- Brush with a little extra milk, sprinkle with remaining cheese.
- Bake at 350 degrees for about 40 minutes or until damper is golden brown and sounds hollow when tapped with finger.
Tips:
- To achieve the perfect damper, use high-quality self-raising flour. You can also add a bit of plain flour to give it a more rustic texture.
- The key to a moist and fluffy damper is to not overwork the dough. Mix the ingredients until they just come together, then knead it gently for a few minutes.
- If you don't have buttermilk, you can make your own by adding 1 tablespoon of lemon juice or vinegar to regular milk. Let it sit for 5 minutes before using.
- If you want a crispy crust, brush the damper with melted butter before baking.
- To check if the damper is cooked, insert a skewer into the center. If it comes out clean, the damper is done.
Conclusion:
Rosemary damper is a delicious and versatile bread that can be enjoyed as a snack, side dish, or even as a main meal. It's perfect for picnics, potlucks, or any other occasion where you need a quick and easy bread. With its simple ingredients and straightforward instructions, this recipe is sure to become a favorite in your kitchen.
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