Now this is just the sweetest video. The woman makes a big bannock the way her late husband liked it and puts it on his plate. Brought a tear to my eye and a smile to my face. Good on ya, Granny!
@@rodcunningham8864 I am from the first nation peiples and my grand mother make bannic bread and great. hope yours was very well thank's for all.xo Luv kue
@@rodcunningham8864 Hey Rod. I think your video was great though I wonder how you kept your hands off the finished bread. But there was one thing I found difficult because of my hearing which was picking up the ingredient list and measurements. I was hoping they might have been included in the description box but unfortunately they were not. I don't suppose it's too late to ask for an assist with that,, yeah? Regards,
@@bertjones3010 Hi Bert. Here you go! Baked Bannock 6 cups flour (or 5½) 1 teaspoon salt (or 2) 1/2 cup shortening about 3 cups cold water 3 heaping teaspoons baking powder Mix dry ingredients. With your fingers, work in shortening or margarine. Make a well in center of flour mixture. Add water and stir to make a soft dough. Knead lightly on floured board. Bake flat (1 inch high) on a lightly greased cookie sheet. Poke fork holes in ban- nock. Bake in 425°-450° oven.
I lost my Mom in 2010. I wanted to learn how to make bannock the way she used to. When I watched this...I could see my Mom in this woman; this made me cry; I loved my Mom a lot.
Thank you for sharing.... that’s wonderful! Please share my Mom’s video to all you friends, please! I’m wanting to make a special event when she gets 1,000 views...❤️
Very happy I found this video. It brought back wonderful memories. I was a trapper's helper for a season with a Cree trapper in northern Saskatchewan in the mid-1980's. His wife made us bannocks and put them in the grub box to take with us on the trapline. He taught me how to bake bannock like this in the wood stove in the trapping cabin, and taught me all sorts of things about trapping, bushcraft and Cree culture. It was the best experience of my life.
At 1980's I dreamed about it when I read Farley Mowats "Lost in the Barrens", but I was in Soviet Union... Now I'm in Ukraine, and after war (if I'll be alive) I hope to visit Canada and realize my old dream... Greetings from Kyiv 🇺🇦✌️
Please reach out to my Mom! She left her email address at end of video… Also, please share this video with all your family and friends. I really want my Mom, who just turned 80.. to know she makes a difference in our lives…and she reaches 1/4 million people! Thank you! -rod-
I made bannock yesterday (National day of truth and reconciliation) for the first time in years. My mom made the best bannock. It took me 3 tries to get it right. My mom always used milk, like your kokum did, and she put an egg in hers if I remember right. I tried that in my last batch and that tasted the closest to what I remember my mom's tasting like. This tutorial was very helpful, and hearing Cree again was sweet.
I make Bannok all the time because of my Scottish heritage yes the Scotts brought Bannok to Canada and shared the knowledge with the First Nations we used to get along fine before $$ was involved
Thank you. I cried watching this, I didn’t expect to. But I never could remember my Granny’s method for making bannock and she’s been gone since 2007. This looks so familiar, and maybe it will help get back a piece of what my family lost. So thank you.
How did your family lose the tradition and recipe ? Very sad and wild how you have to find out how to make it on youtube. I have a 50 year old recipe still and it was obtained by a trapper in the Yukon from another trapper there. Talk to your elders before you no longer can and that is your parents also and your Aunties and uncles and share this recipe with them :-)
@@lindamorgan2678 Nothing was written because Granny couldn’t read. I watched her make it a couple times but couldn’t reproduce it until this video. I finally got the proportions rights, my granny estimated everything. She knew how much flour based on how it looked in her bowl😊. Generational trauma is tough, those aunties had a lot to deal with themselves and they’re healing now. My heritage is something I’m connecting with as a middle aged adult, learning a culture that I was distanced from as a child. Videos like this are priceless for people like me.
I love this video. She talks to us as if we are visiting in her kitchen! Just like our neighbors did when we were cooking. I love it. Go granny !!! Much love to our grandmas And Your Grandma. ❤
This is recipe that I've used making my biscuits, I don't poke dough with fork but cut out and bake about 425 degrees oven for about half hour. Eat hot with butter and jam or pour gravy on top. I have Scottish Ancestry and this bread is called Scottish Bannock Bread which is a quick bread cooked from flour, typically round biscuit sized and is common in Scotland and other British Isles. The name Bannock originates from Old Celtic English "bannuc" derived from the Latin "panicium" for "bread" or meaning "anything baked". There are varying recipes of this bread that began in the 8th Century and it's still baked today!😊 can also be made with oatmeal and flour.
This recipe is really similar to my German grandma’s baking powder biscuits. It’s really interesting how different cultures across oceans can come up with similar foods On that note, if you don’t have a cookie cutter, my grandma uses the rim of a glass
Just ran across this by accident. Not indigenous, but grandmothers are universal. How sweet and wonderful she is! I hope this lucky family treasures her.
Sweet lady: thank you for teaching us Cree Bannock from your family. Spreading the knowledge is a benefit to those you know and those you don't know, such as I, who appreciate your sharing. I am saving this.
Ay hiy, Kokum! I just made my first bannock, using your instructions, and it came out beautifully. I'm making it for my grandchildren. Let the tradition begin! ❤️
Proud of you! Have you tried different cooking methods yet? I know this is cree bannock, but you can make it more akin to navajo fry bread & use it in "indian tacos" or "navajo tacos" for a nice meal idea
Dustin Vanderzwaag i recently lost my mama too, i cry for her too please dont cry im trying my hardest not to be sad our mama's will always ramain in our hearts, Hugs from my side stay srong Dustin❤
I stumbled right into a gem of a video with this one. This lovely Grandma of 8 has such beautiful hands that I know for sure have loved and fed many. She works the dough with wisdom of experience, producing such beautiful Cree Bannock. I am proud to be able to make this for my family. Thank you! 🙏🏻❤️
This is exactly what I was looking for. Not only for the bannock recipe, but just for the unexpected mental reset. I hope the algorithm pushes this to more people. Wish all the best for this woman and her family.
Just learned from a Michif kokum last week, and thought I'd look online to see how other kokums might be doing it 😀 this was so beautiful and full of love 🥰 I think I got some flour in my eye or something... 😭😉 thanks so much for sharing 🥰 Marsii and Miigwetch ! 🙏
Everyone must keep their traditions going for the future generations. My grandmother was from Alberta canada also she thought me to make bannock in my early teens. She was born in 1899 I miss her dearly. May the creator bless this fine woman making this video.
Thank you for sharing! My boys are Cree from Alberta, and they don’t have a Kookum, but they can now learn to make Bannock from your Kookum.Thank you Grandmother! Blessings to you 😊
I have been a foodie my whole life, a Chef, Culinary Arts Professor and teacher professionally my whole adult life, 50+ years and have NEVER heard of this bread!!! I love discovering new foods and cultures to explore!!! You made my day!!!🎉 And I love your enthusiasm and love of your culture and family!!! Blessings to you!!! As soon as I can I'm going to try this and post to you to see if I made it right😊😊😊Many Blessings from New Mexico!!!💞💕💓💕💞
I am a Mohawk man who enjoys cooking and baking. I tried this recipe to a “T” and although good, I overcooked them just a bit. I guess 450 at 35 minutes is too much for my oven. Second attempt put in oven at 450 for 20 minutes and BOOM I nailed it. Bannock came out perfect. Nia:wen’kowa (Thank You very much) for the recipe.
My Nokum and I used to make traditional bannok when she would babysit me as a kid. During this pandemic, I wanted to make something that was comforting. I can't go visit her, for obvious reasons. This videos helped me along, I really saw my Grandmother in this woman. Thank you for sharing. Hearing her speak Cree while she was mixing the bowl put a lump in my throat.
My best friend from HS, loved this. We used to watch her grandmother make Bannock over the campfire at her cottage. It took me about 100x trying to get mine not to burn before I got it right. My friend passed away in a hunting accident in Alberta in 2002. Every year on her birthday, I get out HER families recipes she gave to me, and cook them, and celebrate her birthday July 7th. I celebrated her 53 this Summer. Peace and good health! Thanks for sharing 😊
Sweet, sweet grandma, you are a blessing. The love, the love of tradition and baking the big bannock for your dear, late husband....You brought tears to my eyes, reminding me of my grandma and mama and I'm 70 years old!!! Im so glad i found your video!❤❤❤ Blessings to you and yours. Thank you!!
Thank you, Jeanne. I have been making _Aunt Pauline's potato casserole_ for over a dozen years and I've never even had an Aunt Pauline! It's such a great side dish that I still call it that out of respect for dear old Aunt Pauline. And so it will be with Aunt Jeanne's Cree Bannock! Thank you for sharing this family tradition with your super-extended family like me! 🙏👩🏽🍳🦅🪶
Now pay attention people! This is the ----> *TRUE* Bannock Bread.....the real Canadian First Nations best tasting Bannock you'll ever eat! I'm not First Nations, but here in BC and I've had this exact method, fried or baked and forget about any other recipes ..... this is it! *THE ONE AND ONLY.* This lady is spot on the recipe and the technique!
I’ve been using this video for three years now. I love it and so does my family. I was so happy to finally have someone to teach me how to make bannock. I love and appreciate this video so much.
6 years after this was posted, I'm watching and loving it so much. My mother's side is Cree but she never got to learn how to make bannock the Cree way.. I'm so excited to make this for her next time she visits. This video reminds me so much of my grandpa, it warms my heart!! Very excited to be showing off my bannock skills to my Chilcotin friend too :) Thank you so much for posting this.
What a delightful teacher!! Your bannock is very much like my baking powder bisquits. I can mix a batch and in five minutes have them in the oven!! Great budget stretchers and kids think they are eating such a treat when you have them coming out of the oven as they get home from school!!
Omg!! This video makes my heart melt. It is so sweet, and she is adorable. My partner and I watched it all, and at the end we both cried bc she reminded us of our grandmothers. We’ll definitely send an email to her :)
It's nice to pass on family cooking and baking traditions to the future generations, so they are preserved. That bannock looks so good. I bet that some blueberries or Saskatoon berries would be great in that bannock. It was a nice gesture for her to honour her late husband that way. Cheers! ✌️
Sarah Zuiker Hi Sarah. Thank you so much for your comment. Kokum will love to hear you made bannock at your school! Please email my mom at jdc6699@telus.net ...she would love to hear from you!
Rod Cunningham absolutely. Will do 😀 I will ask my students what they would like to tell her. We have many Cree and Saulteaux students at our school. They loved it!
Thank you, Mrs. Cunningham, for sharing your Bannock recipe, and your history of making it with your Grandmother. I am Anglo-Irish decent, and this is very similar to our Tea Biscuit recipe. I’m going to try the campfire version of this - what a smart idea. It was very touching, the way you made a large oval for your late husband. Our Grandchildren need to be taught about Canada’s relationship with our Indigenous peoples - the bad and the good, and to participate in classroom activities, like making Bannock, Mask making, Beading, etc., to go along with the History. Bless you and your family. Thank you for sharing. mîkwêc 💜
Loved your video, my Grandpa made bannock and our family is of cree ancestry as well it's so nice to see you making bannock like he did. I had to remind myself of quantities of ingredients because I promised my grandsons I would make some for Thanksgiving for them because they love it so much. All of my elders are gone now so I was happy to find your video and it attracted me because you mentioned Cree Bannock. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much I haven’t made bannock since my dad passed away he taught and it’s been years but by following your recipe I’ve reclaimed my bannock making my family thanks you!!!
I’m not Native American, but I want this lady as my nana and hope all Native Americans watch this and teach their kids and always keep their traditions and culture alive. It’s very important and good for the history of everyone. Regardless of where your culture comes from, all people can see the love this lady projects and shares. We all may look different and speak different and have different beliefs, but love is universal and it’s language is clear. It is how we survive and carry forward the things that bind us as a brotherhood of people.
I always find it amazing in the cooking hobby how close most soda bread recipes are to each other in ingredients, for example same ingredients will make you a biscuit yet its the technique and local ingredients that set them apart and make them unique. all are masters of the recipe and all have made me fat and happy over the years. bannock is definitely best with a fresh jam, honey, or maple butter.
Yes they have damper in Australia which is basically the same. Camp fire unleavened but shortened bread. Great for when you're taking over a country!! Fat and carbs and protien easy to form and carry and quickly make on a fire. European breads are all similar like this ..but some use soda to raise some use shortening to raise it and some use yeasts. But all basically come from Europe and were spread by the colonisers or pioneers. It was also used in war times because of how suited it is to long treks. Yeast bread not so easy on a war mission. Nor as much calories. It will definitely keep you fattened up if you aren't tracking somewhere far away every day to slaughter natives.
Oh my goodness… This touched my heart in all the best places. My Grandma taught me how to make bannock just like this, and for something sweet, she also added raisins and a touch of sugar. Her maiden name was Cunningham as well and yes, she was Métis Cree from St. Albert AB. Oh man, this got me in my feels…✨💜✨Grateful this showed up.
Love the video almost as much as I love bannock. I really appreciate this recipe and especially because it is of Cree origin. I'm from Wetaskiwin, Alberta originally and was just back there to attend a Pow Wow at Maskwacis, where I ate my fill of bannock. :) So thank you very much for this video and recipe!
I love this so much, thank you for sharing this. I wish I could have gotten some videos like this with my own grandmother. This video hit me in the heart.
God bless elders who hand down traditional recipes. Lots of people don’t like to share recipes but that’s how heritage and culture can be lost. Thank you wonderful lady for sharing and also blessings on those who you have dedicated your video to!
Thank you for this video kokom! I made Bannock at mile 20 a while ago when an elder came to teach us, and I had forgotten the recipe but really wanted to make it again! 💕
I’ve never heard of bannock. It was mentioned in another video so I had to look it up and found this video. I will definitely be trying this and will have my grandkids help. It is so important to share these kinds of things with our children and grandchildren. Thank you so much for sharing one of your many family traditions.
This Lady (and I do mean Lady!), is nothing less than a National Treasure! Sweetly modest with a very loving heart, she reflects an ethos of the indigenous First Peoples of the North American land mass that thankfully, thru her and her peers, will continue her Cree traditions. Bless and keep you GrandestMa!
Thank you for this wonderful video, I appreciate your knowledge and skills. Great tip about flipping the bannock... I never did that before and now I will. Cheers to you
Makes me remember how it was back in the old days.... My "Late" Grandma's place in Sweetgrass reserve, all us kids be playing around in the living room with the t.v on for the lil ones, Meanwhile the adults play cards and talk n laugh in the kitchen at the table. The good old days! Thanks for video gave me knowledge haha
Here in Scotland we make Bannocks that contain ground oats or barley with flour, buttermilk baking soda (bicarbonate of soda) and a little salt. Mixed into a dough shaped into a round or two depending on the quantities used. Cooked on a griddle, girdle or skillet or in the oven flipped over if on the top of the stove so both sides are nicely coloured. Serve with soup etc as a bread substitute or hot with butter etc for breakfast... In Ireland they make Soda bread or individual soda farls used in exactly the same way (fantastic warm with butter and jam.. Simple easy food).
I’ll be sharing with my great nieces who are part of the Chitimacha Tribe in south Louisiana. How wonderful that you are sharing this memory with your grandchildren and the future generations!
Thank you for a wonderful video! I think it is so awesome how you are passing down a traditional food for your grandchildren to be able to carry on making. I made your recipe and it is amazing - so I just want to say thank you for posting this video 💕
Thank you so much for sharing with us. I loved watching you as you baked and shared your family memories. From one grandma to another here! ❤Great video!
I loved this video, I can't wait to try making some on my next day off! Also, at 7:10 your grandmother may have poked the bread with a fork so it wouldn't raise too much. Flatbreads can puff up almost like a balloon if you don't poke holes in them to release some of the steam/gas. :)
I wrote a 550 recipe cookbook of recipes and other stuff over the last 200 years. I listened even when I wasn't supposed to lol. I am now trying to get it published took me 5 years to do it but its my history and I am the only one left so it has to be done. My family called it a different name cause the lady that taught my great great grandma price she said this is what we call it squaw bread she said cause her husband would say squaw make some bread! I would have to look up her tribe in our bible she officially told grandma that our family and all families in the future were adopted by the comeplete tribe even the elders said so. I Gus's they live on the small farm my great great grandparents owned with all of the families ate together and hunted sewed etc. I love the stories of how our families became larger forever wish I could have been there. That's why its so important to listen and write down everything. Thank you!!!!!
I am 68, found out a few years ago that my gramma who I never knew, was MicMac tribe. I had no idea I had native blood in me. :) I have made your recipe and it is in the oven right now. cant wait to eat it with butter and jam. great video, thanks so much.
Thank you so much for this video. As a Navajo I've seen so many people talk about bannok and I can't wait to try it. It reminds me of the way my family makes "oven bread " but I just roll my dough into rolls and place them in a greased cast iron skillet and then top with butter when they come out of the oven. Let it cool for a few minutes just like you said, flip the skillet over and take the bread out. Thank you for the video!!! I can't wait to have some with butter and jam! 😋💕💕💕😊😊😊
Good instruction! I’ll be making this with my young nephews over a campfire this winter. It’s going to be their first camping trip. I appreciate the homage to Native peoples. Thank you for presenting.
It is so wonderful to see how bannock became part of the Native traditions. It actually originated from Bannockburn in Scotland. I wish my ancestors would also be acknowledged for sharing this with Native peoples. Cheers and Blessings
She's so cute :) I appreciate her sharing her recipe. Lol 'the videographer didn't start the video on time...' Omg I lover her. Give her a big hug please :)... Now off to make some bannock....
Thank you. i made this last year to share with coworkers when i worked at marks. People took some home, and there were no leftovers and a lot of compliments
what a cute little Kukom Ms Cunningham is. I am a non-Native from Alberta. Have eaten lots of bannock, both backed and fried. I figured its about time i learned how to make it, and show my daughters. Even though I'm not Indigenous, I am from Alberta (Lac La Biche), so .... why not? so, thanks for this Ms Cunningham.
My dad worked in northern Alberta until I was 14. We lived on the Métis side of the reserve because we have no indigenous heritage. I was one of very few white kids. The bannock we grew up on was very similar. I haven’t made it in a long time, but I am going to today. Thank you.
I am Cree myself from Winnipeg. Mom was adopted as a baby by Scottish people so the tradition and language and culture was never passed down. Makes me sad at times that I feel connected in my heart and spirit but really know nothing about Cree cooking, language, traditions. Thank you so much for your video, it felt like I was at your table making this with you. I am going to make this tomorrow and I will be thinking about you when I do. I am subscribing, your family is blessed to have you.
Duck lake Saskatchewan Cree made the same bannock. And yes you can fry it too and I would dip it hot into sugar or honey. Thank you for reminding me of my younger days.
You are so sweet! Nice to hear your stories too. Bannock has always a favourite when camping....so yummy over the fire...with butter and jam! I just bought a bag of fried raisin bannock from a local lady here in Edmonton. Had to put it away for tomorrow's breakfast, but snitched a sizeable chunk before doing so :)
Now this is just the sweetest video. The woman makes a big bannock the way her late husband liked it and puts it on his plate. Brought a tear to my eye and a smile to my face. Good on ya, Granny!
Douglas Conlin thank you!
@@rodcunningham8864 I am from the first nation peiples and my grand mother make bannic bread and great. hope yours was very well thank's for all.xo Luv kue
They don't make 'em like they used to. I really love this video. Well done, thanks for this.
@@rodcunningham8864 Hey Rod. I think your video was great though I wonder how you kept your hands off the finished bread. But there was one thing I found difficult because of my hearing which was picking up the ingredient list and measurements. I was hoping they might have been included in the description box but unfortunately they were not. I don't suppose it's too late to ask for an assist with that,, yeah? Regards,
@@bertjones3010 Hi Bert. Here you go!
Baked Bannock
6 cups flour (or 5½)
1 teaspoon salt (or 2)
1/2 cup shortening
about 3 cups cold water
3 heaping teaspoons baking powder
Mix dry ingredients. With your fingers, work in shortening or margarine. Make a well in
center of flour mixture. Add water and stir to make a soft dough. Knead lightly on floured
board. Bake flat (1 inch high) on a lightly greased cookie sheet. Poke fork holes in ban-
nock. Bake in 425°-450° oven.
I beg native american children to learn from their elders. They are a library of knowledge.. Do not lose it.
not indigenous but i used to love going to pow wow club and learning from the indigenous adults. don't let culture die out!
Bannock originated in Scotland.
@@themodsify
And this is *TRUE* First Nations *CANADIAN* Bannock!!! So, what's your point?
@@Johnny_Guitar it's the definition of cultural appropriation to try and steal from another culture right?
@@deseuryderia yes, don't let Scottish culture die.
I lost my Mom in 2010.
I wanted to learn how to make bannock the way she used to. When I watched this...I could see my Mom in this woman; this made me cry; I loved my Mom a lot.
I could see my grandmother. This is the way she taught us, but we slowly forgot.
ThoughtWave64 God bless america.
We share all the kokums
Thank you for sharing.... that’s wonderful! Please share my Mom’s video to all you friends, please!
I’m wanting to make a special event when she gets 1,000 views...❤️
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Very happy I found this video. It brought back wonderful memories. I was a trapper's helper for a season with a Cree trapper in northern Saskatchewan in the mid-1980's. His wife made us bannocks and put them in the grub box to take with us on the trapline. He taught me how to bake bannock like this in the wood stove in the trapping cabin, and taught me all sorts of things about trapping, bushcraft and Cree culture. It was the best experience of my life.
Very interesting 👍🏻
ua-cam.com/video/uLgDSZICco4/v-deo.html northern Alberta Canada 🇨🇦 here UA-camr cooking bannock for kids and more
At 1980's I dreamed about it when I read Farley Mowats "Lost in the Barrens", but I was in Soviet Union... Now I'm in Ukraine, and after war (if I'll be alive) I hope to visit Canada and realize my old dream...
Greetings from Kyiv 🇺🇦✌️
Flour and lard will keep you alive ❤
@@dmytrosotnichenko5970your welcome any time!!!
Hope that horrible war end soon.
And I wish you well😊😊😊
I love this video. This is what we need more of-elders showing, making and teaching. Excellent !!!
Please reach out to my Mom! She left her email address at end of video…
Also, please share this video with all your family and friends.
I really want my Mom, who just turned 80.. to know she makes a difference in our lives…and she reaches 1/4 million people!
Thank you!
-rod-
I made bannock yesterday (National day of truth and reconciliation) for the first time in years. My mom made the best bannock. It took me 3 tries to get it right. My mom always used milk, like your kokum did, and she put an egg in hers if I remember right. I tried that in my last batch and that tasted the closest to what I remember my mom's tasting like. This tutorial was very helpful, and hearing Cree again was sweet.
Thank you for your comment!
I make Bannok all the time because of my Scottish heritage yes the Scotts brought Bannok to Canada and shared the knowledge with the First Nations we used to get along fine before $$ was involved
Thank you for your comment. Please share the video with your family and friends, I know my Nimama (Mom) would like that!
Thank you. I cried watching this, I didn’t expect to. But I never could remember my Granny’s method for making bannock and she’s been gone since 2007. This looks so familiar, and maybe it will help get back a piece of what my family lost. So thank you.
I listen to Police interrogation videos all day and never budge, I had tears watching this within the first two minutes ❤ I miss my Nano
How did your family lose the tradition and recipe ? Very sad and wild how you have to find out how to make it on youtube. I have a 50 year old recipe still and it was obtained by a trapper in the Yukon from another trapper there. Talk to your elders before you no longer can and that is your parents also and your Aunties and uncles and share this recipe with them :-)
@@lindamorgan2678 Nothing was written because Granny couldn’t read. I watched her make it a couple times but couldn’t reproduce it until this video. I finally got the proportions rights, my granny estimated everything. She knew how much flour based on how it looked in her bowl😊. Generational trauma is tough, those aunties had a lot to deal with themselves and they’re healing now. My heritage is something I’m connecting with as a middle aged adult, learning a culture that I was distanced from as a child. Videos like this are priceless for people like me.
I love this video. She talks to us as if we are visiting in her kitchen! Just like our neighbors did when we were cooking. I love it. Go granny !!! Much love to our grandmas And Your Grandma. ❤
Thank you for your kind comment.
Please share the video with your family and friends.
My Nimama (Mom) would appreciate that!
Man....we should all be so blessed to have a grandma..kokum like this........
This is recipe that I've used making my biscuits, I don't poke dough with fork but cut out and bake about 425 degrees oven for about half hour. Eat hot with butter and jam or pour gravy on top. I have Scottish Ancestry and this bread is called Scottish Bannock Bread which is a quick bread cooked from flour, typically round biscuit sized and is common in Scotland and other British Isles. The name Bannock originates from Old Celtic English "bannuc" derived from the Latin "panicium" for "bread" or meaning "anything baked". There are varying recipes of this bread that began in the 8th Century and it's still baked today!😊 can also be made with oatmeal and flour.
Thank you for your comments!
Please share the video with your family and friends. My Nimama (Mom) would like that!
This recipe is really similar to my German grandma’s baking powder biscuits. It’s really interesting how different cultures across oceans can come up with similar foods
On that note, if you don’t have a cookie cutter, my grandma uses the rim of a glass
Thank you for that, Alisa!
That was the first thing I noticed seeing the recipe and prep method. I'm curious what, if any, differences there are.
I believe bannock was introduced to the NAI by the Scottish fur traders.
@@Mark1JTThat makes sence since they probably didn’t have wheat or flour until after the European immigrants arrived.
I’m going to try this. I think I’ll try a piece of it with butter and honey!
Just ran across this by accident. Not indigenous, but grandmothers are universal. How sweet and wonderful she is! I hope this lucky family treasures her.
Sweet lady: thank you for teaching us Cree Bannock from your family. Spreading the knowledge is a benefit to those you know and those you don't know, such as I, who appreciate your sharing. I am saving this.
Thank you for the wonderful feedback.. please share this video with your family and friends…❤️
Ay hiy, Kokum! I just made my first bannock, using your instructions, and it came out beautifully. I'm making it for my grandchildren. Let the tradition begin! ❤️
Proud of you! Have you tried different cooking methods yet?
I know this is cree bannock, but you can make it more akin to navajo fry bread & use it in "indian tacos" or "navajo tacos" for a nice meal idea
My mom had a stroke and I never got to learn ....this made me cry it was so beautiful to see someone make it like she did. Love you mom
Dustin Vanderzwaag I'm so sorry to hear about this that's so sad, now I feel like crying
Dustin Vanderzwaag hi just wanted to say hello ❤ my name is caterina Razor and if you want to be my friend
Dustin Vanderzwaag i recently lost my mama too, i cry for her too please dont cry im trying my hardest not to be sad our mama's will always ramain in our hearts,
Hugs from my side stay srong Dustin❤
I love you son😘
You are wonderful! My Mom, would think highly of you! ❤️
Thank you for this video! I'm adopted so I don't know much about my cree culture and I was looking for an authentic cree bannock video! Thanks!
I stumbled right into a gem of a video with this one. This lovely Grandma of 8 has such beautiful hands that I know for sure have loved and fed many. She works the dough with wisdom of experience, producing such beautiful Cree Bannock. I am proud to be able to make this for my family. Thank you! 🙏🏻❤️
This is exactly what I was looking for. Not only for the bannock recipe, but just for the unexpected mental reset. I hope the algorithm pushes this to more people. Wish all the best for this woman and her family.
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Just learned from a Michif kokum last week, and thought I'd look online to see how other kokums might be doing it 😀 this was so beautiful and full of love 🥰 I think I got some flour in my eye or something... 😭😉 thanks so much for sharing 🥰 Marsii and Miigwetch ! 🙏
Everyone must keep their traditions going for the future generations.
My grandmother was from Alberta canada also she thought me to make bannock in my early teens.
She was born in 1899 I miss her dearly.
May the creator bless this fine woman making this video.
Thank you for sharing! My boys are Cree from Alberta, and they don’t have a Kookum, but they can now learn to make Bannock from your Kookum.Thank you Grandmother! Blessings to you 😊
From an old man in Oklahoma! Thank You! Your husband was a lucky man! Your grand children are blessed!
I have been a foodie my whole life, a Chef, Culinary Arts Professor and teacher professionally my whole adult life, 50+ years and have NEVER heard of this bread!!! I love discovering new foods and cultures to explore!!! You made my day!!!🎉 And I love your enthusiasm and love of your culture and family!!! Blessings to you!!! As soon as I can I'm going to try this and post to you to see if I made it right😊😊😊Many Blessings from New Mexico!!!💞💕💓💕💞
It's a scone
Bannock would have been brought out by the Scots and l believe is their version of the English scone.
I am a Mohawk man who enjoys cooking and baking. I tried this recipe to a “T” and although good, I overcooked them just a bit. I guess 450 at 35 minutes is too much for my oven. Second attempt put in oven at 450 for 20 minutes and BOOM I nailed it. Bannock came out perfect. Nia:wen’kowa (Thank You very much) for the recipe.
My Nokum and I used to make traditional bannok when she would babysit me as a kid. During this pandemic, I wanted to make something that was comforting. I can't go visit her, for obvious reasons. This videos helped me along, I really saw my Grandmother in this woman. Thank you for sharing. Hearing her speak Cree while she was mixing the bowl put a lump in my throat.
My best friend from HS, loved this. We used to watch her grandmother make Bannock over the campfire at her cottage. It took me about 100x trying to get mine not to burn before I got it right. My friend passed away in a hunting accident in Alberta in 2002. Every year on her birthday, I get out HER families recipes she gave to me, and cook them, and celebrate her birthday July 7th. I celebrated her 53 this Summer. Peace and good health! Thanks for sharing 😊
thank you so much and for letting us be a part of your family tradition
Sweet, sweet grandma, you are a blessing. The love, the love of tradition and baking the big bannock for your dear, late husband....You brought tears to my eyes, reminding me of my grandma and mama and I'm 70 years old!!!
Im so glad i found your video!❤❤❤ Blessings to you and yours. Thank you!!
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Thank you, Jeanne.
I have been making _Aunt Pauline's potato casserole_ for over a dozen years and I've never even had an Aunt Pauline!
It's such a great side dish that I still call it that out of respect for dear old Aunt Pauline.
And so it will be with Aunt Jeanne's Cree Bannock!
Thank you for sharing this family tradition with your super-extended family like me!
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Now pay attention people! This is the ----> *TRUE* Bannock Bread.....the real Canadian First Nations best tasting Bannock you'll ever eat! I'm not First Nations, but here in BC and I've had this exact method, fried or baked and forget about any other recipes ..... this is it! *THE ONE AND ONLY.* This lady is spot on the recipe and the technique!
I've always made Blackfoot-style fried bannock, so I'm looking forward to trying this recipe. It reminds me of making baking powder biscuits.
I’ve been using this video for three years now. I love it and so does my family. I was so happy to finally have someone to teach me how to make bannock. I love and appreciate this video so much.
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Happy Holidays!
6 years after this was posted, I'm watching and loving it so much. My mother's side is Cree but she never got to learn how to make bannock the Cree way.. I'm so excited to make this for her next time she visits. This video reminds me so much of my grandpa, it warms my heart!!
Very excited to be showing off my bannock skills to my Chilcotin friend too :) Thank you so much for posting this.
It's beautiful to see traditions passed on. I'm not Cree, grandma, but I wish my grandmother had the opportunity to pass on our traditions too.
I love this lady! Great, to the point presentation. Her grandkids and late grandpa are very lucky! Thank you!
What a delightful teacher!! Your bannock is very much like my baking powder bisquits. I can mix a batch and in five minutes have them in the oven!! Great budget stretchers and kids think they are eating such a treat when you have them coming out of the oven as they get home from school!!
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Omg!! This video makes my heart melt. It is so sweet, and she is adorable. My partner and I watched it all, and at the end we both cried bc she reminded us of our grandmothers. We’ll definitely send an email to her :)
Gabriel S. Torres thank you! She will love that! Please share with family and friends!
It's nice to pass on family cooking and baking traditions to the future generations, so they are preserved. That bannock looks so good. I bet that some blueberries or Saskatoon berries would be great in that bannock. It was a nice gesture for her to honour her late husband that way. Cheers! ✌️
Yes! Ask my Mom! Her email addy is at the very end of the video.
What a lovely lady, and holding her heritage close to her heart ❤
Thank you Grandma! We made your bannock in school in Saskatchewan, Canada, for National Aboriginakl Day!!
Sarah Zuiker Hi Sarah. Thank you so much for your comment. Kokum will love to hear you made bannock at your school! Please email my mom at jdc6699@telus.net ...she would love to hear from you!
Rod Cunningham absolutely. Will do 😀 I will ask my students what they would like to tell her. We have many Cree and Saulteaux students at our school. They loved it!
We watched her video as we made the bannock. It was a real treat.
The best Grandma ever! Treat her like Gold! Thanks for sharing!
I don't know if Kohkom is up for it but we need a part 2!
I agree with you
Thank you, Mrs. Cunningham, for sharing your Bannock recipe, and your history of making it with your Grandmother. I am Anglo-Irish decent, and this is very similar to our Tea Biscuit recipe. I’m going to try the campfire version of this - what a smart idea. It was very touching, the way you made a large oval for your late husband. Our Grandchildren need to be taught about Canada’s relationship with our Indigenous peoples - the bad and the good, and to participate in classroom activities, like making Bannock, Mask making, Beading, etc., to go along with the History. Bless you and your family. Thank you for sharing. mîkwêc 💜
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Ma'am, you are too cute! Thank you very much for sharing your grandmother's bannock recipe with us!!
Thank you for teaching us how to make Cree Bannock the way your grandma had! You're so sweet! Our family loves bannock!
Great video! Love that she's speaking Cree at the same time! Hiy hiy! Please make more!
Loved your video, my Grandpa made bannock and our family is of cree ancestry as well it's so nice to see you making bannock like he did. I had to remind myself of quantities of ingredients because I promised my grandsons I would make some for Thanksgiving for them because they love it so much. All of my elders are gone now so I was happy to find your video and it attracted me because you mentioned Cree Bannock. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much I haven’t made bannock since my dad passed away he taught and it’s been years but by following your recipe I’ve reclaimed my bannock making my family thanks you!!!
I’m not Native American, but I want this lady as my nana and hope all Native Americans watch this and teach their kids and always keep their traditions and culture alive. It’s very important and good for the history of everyone. Regardless of where your culture comes from, all people can see the love this lady projects and shares. We all may look different and speak different and have different beliefs, but love is universal and it’s language is clear. It is how we survive and carry forward the things that bind us as a brotherhood of people.
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I always find it amazing in the cooking hobby how close most soda bread recipes are to each other in ingredients, for example same ingredients will make you a biscuit yet its the technique and local ingredients that set them apart and make them unique. all are masters of the recipe and all have made me fat and happy over the years. bannock is definitely best with a fresh jam, honey, or maple butter.
Yes they have damper in Australia which is basically the same. Camp fire unleavened but shortened bread. Great for when you're taking over a country!! Fat and carbs and protien easy to form and carry and quickly make on a fire. European breads are all similar like this ..but some use soda to raise some use shortening to raise it and some use yeasts. But all basically come from Europe and were spread by the colonisers or pioneers. It was also used in war times because of how suited it is to long treks. Yeast bread not so easy on a war mission. Nor as much calories. It will definitely keep you fattened up if you aren't tracking somewhere far away every day to slaughter natives.
Oh my goodness… This touched my heart in all the best places. My Grandma taught me how to make bannock just like this, and for something sweet, she also added raisins and a touch of sugar. Her maiden name was Cunningham as well and yes, she was Métis Cree from St. Albert AB. Oh man, this got me in my feels…✨💜✨Grateful this showed up.
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Love the video almost as much as I love bannock. I really appreciate this recipe and especially because it is of Cree origin. I'm from Wetaskiwin, Alberta originally and was just back there to attend a Pow Wow at Maskwacis, where I ate my fill of bannock. :) So thank you very much for this video and recipe!
Nice video. I love her hands...hard working hands. 💕
I love this so much, thank you for sharing this. I wish I could have gotten some videos like this with my own grandmother. This video hit me in the heart.
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God bless elders who hand down traditional recipes. Lots of people don’t like to share recipes but that’s how heritage and culture can be lost. Thank you wonderful lady for sharing and also blessings on those who you have dedicated your video to!
Thank you for this video kokom! I made Bannock at mile 20 a while ago when an elder came to teach us, and I had forgotten the recipe but really wanted to make it again! 💕
Leaving for 10 days Moose hunting ,North of Quebec and am going to enjoy them for many years to come Thank you Danny.
I have that same 1970s Tupperware! I love it!
Me too
I’ve never heard of bannock. It was mentioned in another video so I had to look it up and found this video. I will definitely be trying this and will have my grandkids help. It is so important to share these kinds of things with our children and grandchildren. Thank you so much for sharing one of your many family traditions.
Thank you Kookum Jean. I made your bannock for my son’s school holiday luncheon. They loved it. 🥰💕
This Lady (and I do mean Lady!), is nothing less than a National Treasure! Sweetly modest with a very loving heart, she reflects an ethos of the indigenous First Peoples of the North American land mass that thankfully, thru her and her peers, will continue her Cree traditions. Bless and keep you GrandestMa!
That’s so wonderful that read this from you!
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This lady is awesome. She's almost a carbon copy of my Gram, mannerisms, everything.
She's so sweet. May her husband rest in peace. Thank you for taking time to make this video, the bread looks wonderful.
Thank you for this wonderful video, I appreciate your knowledge and skills. Great tip about flipping the bannock... I never did that before and now I will. Cheers to you
Makes me remember how it was back in the old days.... My "Late" Grandma's place in Sweetgrass reserve, all us kids be playing around in the living room with the t.v on for the lil ones, Meanwhile the adults play cards and talk n laugh in the kitchen at the table. The good old days! Thanks for video gave me knowledge haha
Thank you from Winnipeg Manitoba Canada :)
Here in Scotland we make Bannocks that contain ground oats or barley with flour, buttermilk baking soda (bicarbonate of soda) and a little salt. Mixed into a dough shaped into a round or two depending on the quantities used. Cooked on a griddle, girdle or skillet or in the oven flipped over if on the top of the stove so both sides are nicely coloured. Serve with soup etc as a bread substitute or hot with butter etc for breakfast... In Ireland they make Soda bread or individual soda farls used in exactly the same way (fantastic warm with butter and jam.. Simple easy food).
Love the look of Cree Bannocks.
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks so much! I prefer to learn traditional things from traditional people. I am definitely going to make some of this!
I’ll be sharing with my great nieces who are part of the Chitimacha Tribe in south Louisiana. How wonderful that you are sharing this memory with your grandchildren and the future generations!
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Finally found the version I was looking for. Thank-you for sharing this.
Bless her heart. What a nice lady.
Thank you for a wonderful video! I think it is so awesome how you are passing down a traditional food for your grandchildren to be able to carry on making. I made your recipe and it is amazing - so I just want to say thank you for posting this video 💕
This is the most precious video, passing tradition and culture preserved in this sweet video.
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Ayyyyyy greeting from Saskatoon Saskatchewan A sodoe native here
Thank you so much for sharing with us. I loved watching you as you baked and shared your family memories. From one grandma to another here! ❤Great video!
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Lady i could smell it all the way to quebec... wish i had some... enjoyed your video..THANKS
I could smell it all the way to Winnipeg, I could just taste it, yum
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I loved this video, I can't wait to try making some on my next day off! Also, at 7:10 your grandmother may have poked the bread with a fork so it wouldn't raise too much. Flatbreads can puff up almost like a balloon if you don't poke holes in them to release some of the steam/gas. :)
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I wrote a 550 recipe cookbook of recipes and other stuff over the last 200 years. I listened even when I wasn't supposed to lol. I am now trying to get it published took me 5 years to do it but its my history and I am the only one left so it has to be done. My family called it a different name cause the lady that taught my great great grandma price she said this is what we call it squaw bread she said cause her husband would say squaw make some bread! I would have to look up her tribe in our bible she officially told grandma that our family and all families in the future were adopted by the comeplete tribe even the elders said so. I Gus's they live on the small farm my great great grandparents owned with all of the families ate together and hunted sewed etc. I love the stories of how our families became larger forever wish I could have been there. That's why its so important to listen and write down everything. Thank you!!!!!
I am 68, found out a few years ago that my gramma who I never knew, was MicMac tribe. I had no idea I had native blood in me. :) I have made your recipe and it is in the oven right now. cant wait to eat it with butter and jam. great video, thanks so much.
Thank you so much for this video. As a Navajo I've seen so many people talk about bannok and I can't wait to try it. It reminds me of the way my family makes "oven bread " but I just roll my dough into rolls and place them in a greased cast iron skillet and then top with butter when they come out of the oven. Let it cool for a few minutes just like you said, flip the skillet over and take the bread out. Thank you for the video!!! I can't wait to have some with butter and jam! 😋💕💕💕😊😊😊
This was so precious! Thank you for sharing.
Sasha Tietge thank you... please share ..🤗
Good instruction! I’ll be making this with my young nephews over a campfire this winter. It’s going to be their first camping trip. I appreciate the homage to Native peoples. Thank you for presenting.
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I really like the main ingredient love
It is so wonderful to see how bannock became part of the Native traditions. It actually originated from Bannockburn in Scotland. I wish my ancestors would also be acknowledged for sharing this with Native peoples. Cheers and Blessings
Lard is actually healthier than vegetable or conola oil, they're actually made through a synthetic process.
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Thank you Grandmother for your recipe and for showing us the old ways! It’s important for the young to know!
Your the 4th Native woman to say.....I don’t know why my mom did it ....I do it cuz she did it! Got a love native women!
Oops. I accidentally dropped some wild blueberries in my bannock batter.lol
That's a BIG batch of bannock! Nice work!!
She's so cute :) I appreciate her sharing her recipe. Lol 'the videographer didn't start the video on time...' Omg I lover her. Give her a big hug please :)... Now off to make some bannock....
Thank you. i made this last year to share with coworkers when i worked at marks. People took some home, and there were no leftovers and a lot of compliments
It's my father's birthday next weekend I'm gonna make this for him . He grew up outside of red deer and my grandmother made this for him
what a cute little Kukom Ms Cunningham is.
I am a non-Native from Alberta. Have eaten lots of bannock, both backed and fried. I figured its about time i learned how to make it, and show my daughters. Even though I'm not Indigenous, I am from Alberta (Lac La Biche), so .... why not? so, thanks for this Ms Cunningham.
Thanks for the video ! Greetings from Italy
My dad worked in northern Alberta until I was 14. We lived on the Métis side of the reserve because we have no indigenous heritage. I was one of very few white kids. The bannock we grew up on was very similar. I haven’t made it in a long time, but I am going to today. Thank you.
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Lunch today is bannock and roast beef. It isn’t moose meat, but it will do. 🙂
💜💙💜💙💜💙💜💙💜Beautiful Video, Lovely Recipe!!!!!!!💙💜💙💜💙💜💙💜💙💜💙💜💙💜
I am Cree myself from Winnipeg. Mom was adopted as a baby by Scottish people so the tradition and language and culture was never passed down. Makes me sad at times that I feel connected in my heart and spirit but really know nothing about Cree cooking, language, traditions. Thank you so much for your video, it felt like I was at your table making this with you. I am going to make this tomorrow and I will be thinking about you when I do. I am subscribing, your family is blessed to have you.
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That’s a wonderful story. Thanks for sharing.
Amazing video...thank you and merry Christmas!
Duck lake Saskatchewan Cree made the same bannock. And yes you can fry it too and I would dip it hot into sugar or honey. Thank you for reminding me of my younger days.
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Im 21 and just beginning with making bannock, YES IM LATE because life got me late.. so much strugglin but Heeyyy :) This was great ! Meegwetch !!
I'm 44 and just beginning! You're just in time, not too late at all.
It's never too late...
You are so sweet! Nice to hear your stories too. Bannock has always a favourite when camping....so yummy over the fire...with butter and jam! I just bought a bag of fried raisin bannock from a local lady here in Edmonton. Had to put it away for tomorrow's breakfast, but snitched a sizeable chunk before doing so :)