I just saw a recipe on Facebook for fried bread(or "fry pan bread"):
1 c. flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
3 T. fat (butter or shortening)
~1/3 c. water
Combine dry ingredients; cut in fat till crumbly. Add enough water to form a dough. Form 1" circles, cook in lightly greased, warmed skillet until cooked through and brown on both sides. Serve warm with butter, honey, whatever you like.
That's basically the same thing for indian fry bread or bannock... Basically a simple biscuit mix. You can use self rising flour or Bisquick and eliminate carrying baking powder...
The only other difference is the oil (grease)... Butter if you have it, but any oil or grease will do - I was partial to making it with bacon grease, if you pour off your bacon grease and save it for reuse... That's often the only grease you have left if you've been up in the woods a while.
The other thing is the delivery - Indian fry bread is about the same as a pita in size and use... Patted out thin to the size of a taco or burrito tortilla and fried... It bubbles up and will turn out thicker than a pita... but something like that.
Bannock, since it is a camp food, was patted into about a biscuit shape (and fried), or rolled into about a 1/2" snake and wrapped tight around the end of a stick, held over the fire kinda high...If you set it close, the outside will cook too fast and the inside will be doughy
I have also made bannock as a loaf, if you are in a base camp and have access to a cast iron pan and have a cover of some kind. But that takes a knack.
