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What is the difference between a bap and a roll? ›

“Our customers ask for a roll—most often it's a crusty roll: a small round roll, crusty and darker in appearance. More fired,” Daniel tells me. “A bap to us is slightly larger, soft and flatter, generally used for a burger and it doesn't have a crust so the flavour is different.

"Roll" crops up everywhere, but it's most common in the south, with "bun", which also shows up throughout the country, being the favoured word in the North East. "Barm" is very localised to the Manchester area, and "batch" is incredibly specific: this is used just by residents of Liverpool and Coventry.

This could be a barm cake, bread-cake, bap, batch, bun, buttery, muffin, cob, oven bottom, roll or stotty. To add to the confusion, some names mean more than one thing. In the area north of Manchester, bread rolls are called 'teacakes'.

You asked “Do you call them baps, bread rolls or buns. ' In the U.S. we call them rolls as in dinner rolls, sweet rolls, breakfast rolls. Buns are for hotdogs, hamburgers, and bratwurst.

While “cob” seems to describe the most basic version of a bun, a “bap” is a common bun that is made with butter or lard. This makes the roll softer than your usual bun. Also, according to lovefood.com, “bap” is a popular term for bun in London, northeast England, Northern Ireland, and much of south Wales.

Bread roll is a term used widely in England, southern Wales and Scotland, whereas bap was the favourite of North Wales, the West Midlands and Staffordshire.

The blaa is a soft, white, floury bread roll, similar to a Bap or Hamburger Bun. It is popular here in Ireland, especially in Waterford City and County. They are also made in Kilkenny and Clonmel, both originally Norman walled towns.

We don't call rolls biscuits… ever. We call something more similar to what they'd call scones biscuits. We call rolls rolls (and they call rolls baps or any number of other things too numerous to mention based on region, apparently). Either way, rolls and biscuits aren't the same thing.

If you don't have a large 11 inch cast iron pan, you can use a glass baking dish sprayed with nonstick spray. A 9×13 size would work well. It's best to have the rolls all touching each other when you arrange them in the pan, and I'll tell you why…

Too much flour, or not the right kind, could be to blame. Dough made only from flour with a high or even average amount of protein (like bread flour or all-purpose flour) can become tough from overmixing. Protein gives bread structure in the form of gluten—the more you mix and move the dough, the more gluten you get.

Why are my homemade rolls so dense? ›

There may be several reasons for a dense, cake like texture in bread. It may indicate the kneading wasn't enough for the gluten to develop properly, or the dough was proved for too short a time or the dough may have been too dry. It is also worth checking the flour you used.

"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 co*ckney rhyming slang “bread and honey” is shortened to bread, meaning money. The person who earns a wage to support their family is often referred to as the “breadwinner.” “Dough” came on to the American slang scene in about 1840, and predated “bread” by a little more than a century.

There is only one English language, Americans speak a version of it. A bun is a form of sweet or savoury bread roll.

While not the most popular term in any county, there are nonetheless notable minorities of people (in the 20-29% group) using the name bap in Staffordshire, Cheshire, and Shropshire – where it is the second or joint-second most common term – as well as smaller minorities (in the 10-19% range) in Cornwall, Devon and the ...

In the South of England, North East and South Wales, you get your bacon in a bap, a soft bread roll with a healthy squish and minimal crust. If you're in the North West on the other-hand you're more likely to ask for a barm cake in which to encase your bacon.

Definitions of bap. noun. a small loaf or roll of soft bread. type of: bread, breadstuff, staff of life.