Bakeapple pie is a Canadian term for a pie made from cloudberries. There are actually no apples in the pie; “bakeapple” is another word for cloudberries. The pie is traditional in the Newfoundland and Labrador regions of Canada. It is most typically made from fresh fruit (in season.) It is a simple pie, with fruit…
Newfoundland Food
Bangbelly
Bangbelly is a Newfoundland, Canada, baked dessert. Bangbelly is made from cooked rice, flour, molasses, baking powder, raisins, cubed salt pork (partially-fried first) and spices (cinnamon, allspice, clove, nutmeg, etc.) Some people make Bangbelly from leftover bread soaked in water instead of rice and flour, though using bread makes it more like a bread pudding….
Damper Dogs
Damper Dogs are stove-top baked bread made from white bread dough made in Newfoundland. Traditionally, they were made on top of a cast-iron wood or coal stove, on the flat dampers that served as burners for the stove. You’d clean the top of the stove, then heat it. Meanwhile, you would cut off egg-size pieces…
Pork Buns (Newfoundland)
Pork Buns are made in Newfoundland, Canada. They are quickbread rolls with chopped salt fat back pork in them. To make them, you lightly pan-fry chopped salt pork. While it is cooling, you mix flour with baking powder, add in both the fried pork pieces and the fat in the pan that came off the…
Toutons
Toutons are small pancakes made in Newfoundland (Canada) of risen, standard white bread dough that is then fried. To make Toutons, you start with 1/2 to 1 cup of cubed uncooked salt pork, which you pan fry until crisp. You remove the salt pork, keeping the fat in the frying pan — the cooking fat…