Re: British bread rolls - taxonomy

Bertie Doe wrote:

> 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.

Sounds interesting Bertie and glad to see you are still here!  Lee
seems gone (she was the blind lady who top posted, due to screen reader
problems).  Dick Margalis (sp?) long gone too.