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Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 1 (240g)

Recipe makes 8 servings

The following items or measurements are not included below:

2 teaspoons seasoning salt

Calories 716
Calories from Fat 448 (62%)
Amount Per Serving %DV
Total Fat 49.8g 76%
Saturated Fat 22.1g 110%
Monounsaturated Fat 18.6g
Polyunsaturated Fat 4.3g
Trans Fat 0.0g
Cholesterol 308mg 102%
Sodium 1113mg 46%
Potassium 404mg 11%
Total Carbohydrate 35.9g 11%
Dietary Fiber 1.5g 6%
Sugars 4.2g
Protein 29.8g 59%

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Picnic Bread (From South Africa)

Recipe #133908 | 1½ hours | 25 min prep | add private note
Zurie

By: Zurie
Aug 18, 2005

This is the perfect road food, fisherman's lunch, school lunch bread, breakfast ... I can't be without this recipe, given to me long ago by a friend. It definitely does not need butter — just slice and eat. Please note that this does not pretend to be a low-fat recipe! It is meant for long days away from home, when one slice means sustenance.

SERVES 8 -12 (change servings and units)

Ingredients

Directions

  1. 1
    Set oven on 350 deg F.
  2. 2
    Grease well 2 fairly small bread tins.
  3. 3
    Mix all the ingredients except the buttermilk. DO NOT fry the bacon: it goes in raw, chopped: it cooks in the baking process and adds to the flavour.
  4. 4
    Add enough buttermilk to make a soft, almost sticky dough, as for scones.
  5. 5
    Divide batter between the 2 tins.
  6. 6
    Bake about 1 hour in the preheated oven, or until a skewer comes out clean. Turn out and cool on a rack.
  7. 7
    It's going to be difficult to guess the servings, as the bread is rich and filling. When cool, wrap in foil and keep at room temperature or in fridge overnight (assuming you're going to use it on a trip of for school the next day).
  8. 8
    It freezes well.

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From: Wild Thyme Flour

On Jun 23, 2009

Made this as a school lunch for my daughter because she was getting fed up of the usual. she loved it, as did I and my dh. thanks so much.

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  • From: kimba33

    On Apr 14, 2009

    zurie, this is a great way to use up all the eggs i get from the girls(hens) half the time i have about 5 dozen in the frig . i also wanted to tell you i loved your pictures .my thief in my garden was my old mare i've had since i was 12 . she was like cat woman in the night .anyway great recipe

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  • From: Kathy228

    On Sep 14, 2008

    This was wonderful! Very dense and moist. It's a sandwich all by itself. I was doubtful about using raw bacon in the recipe, but it just baked in and sort of disappeared and left a wonderful flavor. Thanks for this keeper. **** I made it again, but this time I browned the bacon. Not crisp, but still limp, just slightly brown. That really changes the taste of the bread. Though it was good after browning the bacon, it is much, much better using the bacon raw. I won't brown it anymore when I make this recipe, which will be often. I love this recipe. Thanks Zurie.

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    From: Nana Lee

    On Oct 14, 2005

    Since I live alone I decided to halve the recipe. It worked just fine. I even tested it on my shopping pals. We all take the same van for shopping. Their comments were "delicious", "wow, don't need butter on this", "good without having to make it into a sandwich". They echo my comments. This was indeed a delicious bread without having to slather it with butter or something else. I liked the texture, it reminds me of some of the "Old World" breads I was brought up on. And very filling on its own. Thanks for the taste treat, this goes into my Bread and Rolls file. Thanks also for the green bean stew!

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