Re: British bread rolls - taxonomy

On Friday, June 2, 2023 at 12:11:14 AM UTC+1, Peter Flynn wrote:
> On 29/04/2023 22:50, 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?
> Not as far as I know. I think bread bowls for soup are an American 
> thing; at least, they were unknown in the UK Midlands in the 60s. These 
> were only the size of a large dinner roll, so hardly big enough for more 
> than a couple of spoons of soup, and the walls were so think that sup 
> would leak through them in seconds. 
> 
> Peter

Top of my bucket list to do, is 'Bunny Chows' South African / Indian Street Food (Bania). Ok, not soup but in SA they use a taller 'Stolen' mold for the bread, filled with curry meat/veg.