Re: British bread rolls - taxonomy

On 2021-09-23 1:35 p.m., Peter Flynn wrote:
> On 28/08/2021 17:56, Graham wrote:
>> On 2021-08-28 7:20 a.m., Peter Flynn wrote:
>>> [...] 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!
> 
> They were definitely at the bottom end of the baking industry spectrum.
> I have no idea what people would buy them for.
> 
> The village in East Anglia I spent most time in was too small to have
> anything except a village stores, and they just took a small number of
> loaves from a travelling bread van that came in from Bungay or Beccles.
> Most people baked their own at home there, I suspect.

Both bakeries in the village (Debenham) are long gone. There is now a 
small supermarket that receives bread deliveries from somewhere. I 
haven't visited for 2 years due to covid but I hope to visit the UK next 
year. I will then be able to see what has developed in the village when 
I go to see my parent's grave.

>> 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.
> 
> Not common these days: the mass-market rolls are plain white and
> factory-produced. But in some stores you can get hand-made bread, and
> it's growing slowly. ABC (Alternative Bread Company) in Cork market
> hived off their production to a commercial baker some years ago when it
> got too big an operation to be done at home, and the quality suffered
> and hasn't recovered. Still pretty good, but not what it was. Declan
> Ryan (of Arbutus fame) still make and sells his bread, though, which is
> amazing.
> 
> Peter
>
I have pleasant memories of Cork. I was busy collecting rock samples 
along the east side of the harbour but got cut off by the tide. I 
managed to clamber into the old Admiralty fort and make my way to the 
gate. The caretaker and his wife were surprised and invited me in for tea.
Graham