Railway Dog

Easy travel food, especially as you will often find flour and sometimes oil left behind by previous guests in a hostel or apartment kitchen with a hob. Even better if there is cinnamon and/or ginger. You can even take them on a hike to eat cold (ginger/fruit ones work especially well for this).

Mix (the starred ingredients are the only essential ones):

• 1-2 cups flour*
• 1 cup aqua faba / plant milk / water *
• 1-2 tablespoons oil *
• 1/2 tea spoons (tsp) of baking powder if you have it (often sold in single sachets in small supermarkets – look for sachets with cake pictures on)
• 0-1 mashed banana
• 3 dollops of soaked oats if you feel like it, as gives a bit of creaminess and texture
• 2-3 tsp ginger powder, or some chopped/grated fresh ginger or lemon zest
• 1-2 tsp cinnamon powder
• Handful of finely chopped fruit if you have some
• Optional 1-3 tsp jam, fruit syrup, or vanilla sugar (also sold in single sachets)
• Pinch of salt, if no dog consumer

Mix all the ingredients thoroughly in anything that works as a bowl, from tupperware to a cooking pot. It should be thick and sticky, but liquid enough to slowly spread itself across the bottom of the bowl. Add more flour or liquid as necessary. Leave to stand for 15 mins if you have the patience.

Then heat 1 tablespoon of oil in a pan and dolop the mix for drop scones, or make the batter a little more liquid and cover the base of the pan with it thinly, tilting the pan to get it to run, to make pancakes.

Serve warm on their own or with chopped fruit, lemon juice, soya yoghurt, chopped nuts, soya cream, tahini, peanut butter, whatever you fancy.