Re: British bread rolls - taxonomy

On 2021-08-28 7:20 a.m., Peter Flynn wrote:
> On 25/08/2021 17:25, Graham wrote:
>> A long but interesting article:
>> https://tinyurl.com/283adc2m
> 
> I just looked at the banner image and I don't recognize most of them
> even though I spent my early life in the UK. I suspect lots of them are
> regional, but I'll settle down and read the article.
> 
> Graham, what is the name of that bread roll I used to come across a lot
> in the midlands in the 60s and 70s, and again in London in the 70s and
> 80s, round, domed, basically all crust and hollow inside? looking nice
> but a tasteless swindle of an empty roll.
>
I don't know! I hated them too. The "dough buns" that the 2 bakeries in 
my home village made were essentially small baps. The crusts were soft. 
The bakers would never have got away with those hollow monstrosities!

> We have a different set of breads in Ireland, many with local names, but
> one that seems to be making headway elsewhere after getting its AOC, the
> Waterford Blaa, which is like a bap but round not square, getting its
> name from a corruption of the French "blanc" (white) in reference to the
> finer flour used at a time when common flour was brown.
> 
> Thanks for posting this

I like to help keep the group alive!
I remember buying soda bread rolls when I was doing field work in Cork 
Harbour and other places along the south coast including Hook Head.