A puftaloon is a fried
scone
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, a kind of
quick bread
Quick bread is any bread leavened with a chemical leavening agent rather than a biological one like Baker's yeast, yeast or Sourdough#Starter, sourdough starter. An advantage of quick breads is their ability to be prepared quickly and reliably, w ...
, most often cooked in
Australia
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.
Popular with children in winter, they are made from
flour
Flour is a powder made by Mill (grinding), grinding raw grains, List of root vegetables, roots, beans, Nut (fruit), nuts, or seeds. Flours are used to make many different foods. Cereal flour, particularly wheat flour, is the main ingredie ...
,
salt
In common usage, salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl). When used in food, especially in granulated form, it is more formally called table salt. In the form of a natural crystalline mineral, salt is also known as r ...
,
butter
Butter is a dairy product made from the fat and protein components of Churning (butter), churned cream. It is a semi-solid emulsion at room temperature, consisting of approximately 81% butterfat. It is used at room temperature as a spread (food ...
and
milk
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, and traditionally fried in
dripping
Dripping, also known usually as pork dripping or beef dripping, is an animal fat produced from the fatty or otherwise unusable parts of cow or pig carcasses. It is similar to lard, tallow and schmaltz.
History
It is used for cooking, especia ...
(rendered animal fat).
Puftaloons are also known as johnnycakes, mentioned in the Australian folk song "Four Little Johnny Cakes", in which an itinerant sheep shearer describes the food at his riverside camp:
"With my little round flour-bag sitting on a stump, / My little tea-and-sugar bag looking nice and plump,
A little fat cod-fish just off the hook, / And four little johnny-cakes, a credit to the cook".
See also
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List of quick breads
This is a list of quick breads. Quick bread is any bread leavened with some leavening agents other than yeast or eggs. Preparing a quick bread generally involves two mixing bowls. One contains all dry ingredients (including chemical leavening age ...
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Sources
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References
Australian breads
Quick breads
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