A bread roll is a small, usually round or oblong individual loaf of bread served as a meal accompaniment (eaten plain or with butter). Rolls can be served and eaten whole or are also commonly cut and filled – the result of doing so is considered a sandwich in English.
4-463: A bun is a type of bread roll , typically filled with savory fillings (for example hamburger ). A bun may also refer to a sweet cake in certain parts of the world. Though they come in many shapes and sizes, buns are most commonly round, and are generally hand-sized or smaller. In the United Kingdom, the usage of the term differs greatly in different regions. In Southern England, a bun is
8-788: A hand-sized sweet cake, while in Northern England , it is a small round of ordinary bread. In Ireland, a bun refers to a sweet cake, roughly analogous to an American cupcake . Buns are usually made from a dough of flour, milk, yeast and small amounts of sugar and/or butter. Sweet bun dough is distinguished from bread dough by the addition of sugar, butter and sometimes egg. Common sweet varieties contain small fruit or nuts, topped with icing or caramel , and filled with jam or cream . Chinese baozi , with savory or sweet fillings, are often referred to as "buns" in English. Bread roll Rolls are common throughout Europe. Even in
12-690: The Netherlands they are called broodje . "Small bread" is also found as Italian panino , which also commonly denotes a stuffed small bread roll. The Kaisersemmel reappears in Italy as the Michetta or Rosetta . In Swedish , a bread roll is a (frukost) bullar ("(breakfast) buns"), franskbrödbullar ("french bread bun") or simply fralla ("bun"), comfort food eaten with butter and any kind of topping (marmalade, cheese, ham, salami) for special weekend breakfasts. The Doppelweck or Doppelbrötchen
16-1129: The same languages, rolls are known by a variety of names. Some European languages have many local and dialectal terms for bread rolls. These include German language diminutives of Brot (bread) in most of western and central Germany (where they are called Brötchen ) and in Switzerland (where they are called Brötli ). Other German language terms include Rundstück ("round piece") in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein ; Weckerl or more specific Semmel in Austria , Saxony and southern Bavaria ; Weck in much of Baden-Württemberg , Franconia and Saarland ; Schrippe in Berlin and parts of Brandenburg . Some of these names reappear in other European languages as well, for example as zsemle in Hungarian , or rundstykker ("round pieces") in Danish and Norwegian . In
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