These cakes, or bannocks as we call them in Scotland, were baked in the usual way, but they were washed over with a thin batter composed of whipped egg, milk or cream, and a little oatmeal.
He had completed his scraping, and was cracking away very freely with the woman, who was baking some bannocks on the stone, with sleeves rolled up from arms that were rounded and white.
He got his bannocks and he went, and we lay back a while on our bedding and pretended to have heard none of the incident It was a pleasant feature of the good woman's character that she said never a word of her tactics in our interest.
He brought Silis home to the dull place at Stronbuie, and she baked his bannocks and ploughed his bit of soil, but her heart never left salt Finne-side.
They sat them down round the fire in the middle of the floor and ate bannocks and cheese.
Then back to her Culross girdle, for she was at the baking of bannocks to go in her husband's dorlach for the wars.
Harry carried in the peats and set them down by the fire-place, where Marjorie was busy frying fish, while Tricksy was making bannocksat the table.
The boys scrambled out as far as they could and threw out their lines; and when half-a-dozen rock-cod had been caught they returned to find Marjorie and Tricksy very busy over the fire, while a pile of hot bannocks smoked beside them.
I'll fecht them wi' barley bannocks and dauds o' butter.
The King, honest man, has, I daresay, forgotten baith me and mybannocks many a day syne.
How should I forget the barley bannocks of the 'Torwood?
There's no a lassie maks better bannocksthis side o' Fetter Lums," continued Pete.
In Thrums no one who cared to live on porridge and bannocks had money to satisfy the farmers; but, on the other hand, none of them grudged going for it, and go they did.
In this process the possibilities in the way of burning hands and face, and of dropping the bannocks into the fire and ashes are great.
Joe and Gilbert put up the tents, while down at our camp fire at the shore George made the bannocks and Job skinned, dressed, and cooked the porcupine.
We secured three of the transformed bears, and on Sunday morning had stewed duck and fresh bannocks for breakfast.
There were bannocks to be made again, and I helped to cook them.
On the east it extends to Ruby Valley, where it joins on the territory of the Goshoots, the Bannocks being their neighbors on the northeast.
The Bannocks 'seem to be imbued with a spirit of dash and bravery quite unusual.
The Bannocks drift 'from Boise City to the game country northeast of Bozeman, Montana, and south as far as Fort Bridger, Wyoming Territory .
So they made merry, and crammed themselves with bannocks and butter, and had a drop of brandy into the bargain.
The disappointment of the Bannockswas very great, and their comprehension of causes very slow.
The next morning the Bannocks broke camp, and vanished before the hoar frost had melted from the sage.
Get up what you can spare and we'll have bannocks baking in that settlement before noon.
But had Philip allowed Roy to proceed in his generous application of water, his proposed bannocks would have resulted in flour paste.
When I got near them I found that they were Bannocks and were not warriors, but apparently a hunting and fishing party, and were an old men and women.
We had been on high ground all of the way, and we thought now when once in this valley we would be entirely out of the way of the Crows, and the Bannocks and Blackfoot Indians would be the only tribes to contend with.
Bacon and eggs and fried potatoes, bannocks with butter, heather honey and milk.
Set oot the bannocks and honey and milk, Mary, for the lads, then mak ready the bacon and eggs.
Then the supper was spread upon the table, and it was all the visitor could desire; porridge in brown bowls, smoking and fragrant, sweet white bread, and bannockswith plenty of maple syrup.
The children gazed uncomprehendingly at her, but just then Kirsty came forward with a plate of bannocks soaked in maple syrup, and for a time they gave it their absorbed attention.
A call from the house summoned them; Kirsty had hurried in and was searching the milk-house forbannocks and maple syrup.
III In the evening when the moon peeped over the western hills, Fergus Ryan tied his boots round his neck, placed three bannocks in a woollen handkerchief and went out from his father’s door.
This is the word the chief of the Bannocks sends you!
Did not Snoqualmie say then that the two tribes should henceforth be as one tribe, and that the Bannocks should be the brethren of the Cayuses forever?
The Bannockssent back the peace-pipe by this man, and he broke it and cast the pieces in our teeth," answered one, stubbornly.
Then in another minute Dale himself came galloping to the empty yard, rode his horse along the flags into the garden, and yelled to Mavis that she was to fetch trays of bread and cheese and bannocks as quick as life.
The killing and cutting up was finished by noon next day, and when darkness fell the two gorged an enormous meal of bannocks and liver, and retired to their sleeping bags for a well-earned rest.
When he had disappeared over the ridge Connie hastily bolted some bannocks and a cold leg of rabbit.
Sweeter--richer bannocks of barley-meal never met the mouth of mortal man--nor more delicious butter.
I ken noo that Archie's parritch is weel made and his bannocks weel baked; and a' the wark is weel dune and naething wasted," she said to her husband.
Fine parritch and bannocks would then be made in this hoose; and wha kens whether the totties" (potatoes) "would come to the board cauld or het!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bannocks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
