Australian

Damper

Name: Damper
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Australian
Ingredients: 3 cups self-raising flour; 2 tbsp butter; 1.25 cups milk; 2 tbsp golden syrup; 1 tsp salt

Chloe @chloe_melbourne

Damper is Australian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the carb everything else is eaten with. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

40 min Medium Vegetarian Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

3 cups self-raising flour
2 tbsp butter
1.25 cups milk
2 tbsp golden syrup
1 tsp salt

How to cook it

Heat the oven to 425F and line a baking tray.
Rub the butter into the flour and salt until it resembles breadcrumbs.
Stir in the milk to form a soft dough.
Shape into a round loaf, place on the tray, and score a cross in the top.
Bake until golden and it sounds hollow when tapped, about 25 minutes.
Serve warm with golden syrup for spreading.

Watch how to cook Damper

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

The only Damper Recipe you will ever need. Play the video

Serve it with

A Australian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Damper, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- Aussie Butter Chicken
  
  40 min
The cooked vegetable
- Aussie Corn on the Cob
  
  15 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Damper carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Damper
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Aussie Potato Salad
Gluten	Yes	Aussie Potato Salad
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 440 kcal
Protein: 12 g
Carbs: 81 g
Fat: 8 g
Fiber: 3 g
Sugar: 10 g
Sodium: 1060 mg
Saturated fat: 5 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Damper takes about 40 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.