Bannock (food) Bannock (food) Bannock is a variety of flat quick bread or any large, round article baked or cooked from grain. A bannock is usually cut into sections before serving. The word "bannock" comes from Northern and Scots English dialects. The "Oxford English Dictionary" states the term stems from "panicium", a Latin word for "baked dough", or from "panis", meaning bread. It was first referred to as "bannuc" in early glosses to the 8th century author Aldhelm (d. 709), and its first cited definition in 1562. Its historic use was primarily in Ireland, Scotland and Northern England. The Scottish poet Robert
Russell Bannock Director of the Canadian Industrial Preparedness Association, and the Canadian Exporters Association. In the late 1990s, his wartime navigator, Robert Bruce, recorded his Symphony in B flat, dedicated to Bannock and in part inspired by the night sorties they flew together. In 2011 he was made a member of the Order of Ontario "for his contributions to the aerospace industry". Russell Bannock Russell "Russ" Bannock (born November 1, 1919), is a Second World War ace and former chief test pilot for de Havilland Canada. Bannock was born in Edmonton in 1919, and worked as a commercial pilot before the Second