Verdict: Bannock-on-a-stick

Wow. Really rather good! Especially given that it takes about two minutes to make the dough, it's really rather excellent! As the recipe stands, it's a bit too buttery - more like a scone than bread. But for the second round, I halved the amount of butter in it and it's just perfect. We even added some fresh herbs to one of them which worked really nicely. It's really an excellent and incredibly easy addition to the standard barbecue fare!

Barbecue bread

I'm at home for the Easter weekend this year and we're having a barbecue. I thought it'd be fun to try doing some form of bread actually baked on the barbecue itself. Unfortunately, we've got nothing that would really work as a Dutch oven, so it's really got to be a bread that will stand being grilled rather than baked. Some form of bannock seemed like a good, simple option - and then I came across this website, which shows a simple bannock being grilled over an open fire on a stick. It looks tasty and involves fires and sticks - what more could you want?!

Bannock-on-a-stick
Ingredients

• 100g Plain flour
• 1tsp Baking powder
• 1/4 tsp Salt
  
• 3tbsp Butter
• 2tbsp Milk
  

Method

1. Mix the flour, baking powder and salt together and then rub the butter into the mixture.
2. Add milk slowly to incorporate into a dough.
3. Form into a ~1cm thick slab and wrap around a stick and grill over a fire or put on the barbecue, turning as needed.

Here's the dough.
Ready for the barbecue.

Time for a reprise

Those of you who have been paying attention may remember that I owe Trisha another cake. Well, it's her birthday next week and she's having a barbecue tomorrow, so this seemed like a good opportunity actually to bake it! As I'm pretty determined that this cake will be rather more successful than the last one was, I thought it best to bake a cake that I've already baked (and liked) before. And as the weather's finally getting rather summery, I thought the pear and almond cake would be perfect. Here's a photo of it this time around!