List of British breads

Traditional beremeal bannock, as made in Orkney, Scotland. The separated sector is a scone.

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

A cottage loaf
A buttered crumpet
Staffordshire oatcakes filled with cheese and bacon
  • 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
    • Bloomer – hand-shaped loaf with rounded ends, often with deep diagonal slashes made to the top before baking, tray baked [3]
    • Batch loaf
    • Cob – bread loaf of a roughly spherical shape, slightly flattened
    • Cottage loaf
    • Manchet
    • Milk roll – also known as a 'Blackpool milk roll'.[4]
    • National Loaf
    • Pan loaf (tin loaf) - a loaf with a cut along the top is known as a split tin. The split can be accentuated by brushing with cold water.
    • Plain loaf
    • Tiger bread

Sweet

Homemade hot cross buns

See also

References

  1. ^ ""History of bread", Bakers' Federation website". Bakersfederation.org.uk. Archived from the original on 2014-12-15. Retrieved 2014-12-15.
  2. ^ "Malted-grain bread recipes". BBC Food.
  3. ^ "Bloomer (recipe by Paul Hollywood)". SBS Food. 9 July 2020.
  4. ^ "The Foods of England - Milk Roll". www.foodsofengland.info.
  5. ^ Hyslop, Leah (12 March 2014). "Eight forgotten British bakes that deserve a comeback". The Telegraph.