List of British breads
Appearance
This is a list of bread products made in or originating from Britain. British cuisine is the specific set of cooking traditions and practices associated with the United Kingdom. Bread prepared from mixed grains was introduced to Great Britain around 3700 BC.[1]
Savoury
[edit]- Griddle pancake
- Bannock
- Crumpet (also often served sweet; known as pikelets in some areas of England)
- Griddle scone
- Muffin
- Pikelet – name by which crumpets are known in the Midlands and some areas of Northern England; also, an alternative name in Australia and New Zealand for what are generally called drop scones there
- Scotch pancake, also called pikelet (Australia and New Zealand) or drop scone (some areas of Scotland; Australian and New Zealand)
- Staffordshire oatcake – called oat cakes by locals
- Bread
- Barley bread
- Cockle bread
- Granary bread – made from malted-grain flour (in the United Kingdom, Granary flour, a proprietary malted-grain flour, is a brand name, so bakeries may call these breads malthouse or malted-grain bread.)[2] See: sprouted bread for similar.
- Rowie
- Loaf
- Cottage loaf
- Manchet
- Milk roll – also known as a 'Blackpool milk roll'.[3]
- Pan loaf (tin loaf)
- Plain loaf
- Bloomer – hand-shaped loaf with rounded ends, often with deep diagonal slashes made to the top before baking, tray baked [4]
- Tiger bread
- Cottage loaf
- Batch loaf
- Cob – bread loaf of a roughly spherical shape, slightly flattened
- Bun
- Barm cake
- Scuffler
- Stottie cake
- Tattie scone
- Fadgie
- Lancashire oven bottom
- Bap
- Roll
- Sub
- Devonshire split (traditionally part of a cream tea, rather than scones)
- Flatbread
- Farl
- Tattie scone
- Potato cake
- Oatcake § England
- Staffordshire oatcake
- Derbyshire oatcake
- Lancashire and Yorkshire oatcake, also known as Cumberland oatcake, havver cake or clapcake[5]
- Oatcake § Scotland
Sweet
[edit]- Bara brith
- Barm brack
- Bath bun
- Chelsea bun
- Colston bun
- Dripping cake
- Hot cross bun
- Iced bun
- Iced finger
- Lemon bun
- Soul cake
- Bath bun
- Shropshire butter bun
- Dursley butter bun
- Hevva cake
- Rum baba
- Lancashire or Yorkshire tea bread
- Lardy cake
- London bun
- Saffron bun
- Scone (also often savoury)
- Fat rascal
- Doughnut
- Teacake
- Welsh cake
See also
[edit]- Bread in Europe#United Kingdom
- Chorleywood bread process developed in Britain
- English cuisine
- Cream tea (Devonshire tea or Cornish tea)
- List of baked goods
- List of bread rolls
- List of breads
- List of British desserts
- List of English dishes
- List of quick breads
- Northern Irish cuisine
- Scottish cuisine
- Welsh cuisine
References
[edit]Wikimedia Commons has media related to Breads of the United Kingdom.
- ^ ""History of bread", Bakers' Federation website". Bakersfederation.org.uk. Archived from the original on 2014-12-15. Retrieved 2014-12-15.
- ^ "Malted-grain bread recipes". BBC Food.
- ^ "The Foods of England - Milk Roll". www.foodsofengland.co.uk.
- ^ "Bloomer (recipe by Paul Hollywood)". SBS Food. 9 July 2020.
- ^ Hyslop, Leah (12 March 2014). "Eight forgotten British bakes that deserve a comeback". The Telegraph.