Re: British bread rolls - taxonomy

Graham wrote:

> On 2023-04-29 3:50 p.m., cshenk wrote:
> > Graham wrote:
> > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Hi Graham, old messages but just rejoined.  Would the hollow bread
> > be related to bread bowls for soup back then?
> 
> No. IME those soup "bowls" were just hollowed out round loaves.
> Who knows what they did with all that crumb.

Maybe made bread pudding or bread crumbs?  Could be salad crutons?