Bannock

Bannock, a cake of home-made bread, common in Scotland and the north of England. It is usually composed of pease-meal or of pease and barley meal mixed; prepared without any leaven, it is baked on a circular plate of iron, called a girdle. When made of mixed meal, it is often called a mashlum bannock. 'Bannocks of barley-meal' form the theme of a popular Scottish song. The word bannock is from the Gaelic bannach, 'a cake.'