Bannock

Life is definitely 'batter' with baby Bannock! Always rising to the occasion, this masculine moniker makes a fitting choice if your little one comes from a family of baking enthusiasts. Although rarely used as a name in itself, you may be more familiar with bannock as a round flat bread often baked to mark holidays or religious feasts like St Brigid's Day or Bealtaine. It is traditionally made in Ireland and Scotland and usually cut into thick pizza-like slices before being served alongside a hearty stew, a fried breakfast, or with a generous dollop of butter and jam. Outside of Europe, First Nations Canadians may also be familiar with bannock too! The Inuit people took the recipe from the Scottish fur traders and made it wholly their own, calling it palauga. Bannock is traditionally made from oats and flour, hence its meaning of "unleavened oat bread" or "thick flat cake" from the English bannuc or the Irish bannach. Both of these words are, shall we say, base ingredients from the Latin panicium, from panis, "bread." Kneaded with love from the start, your little Bannock will savor every delightful slice of life!