What do you call a bread roll: A Cob, Barm Cake, or Batch? Or something else?!
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i call em either barm cakes, buns, rolls or bread barms
a loaf
Bap
A roll.
By any other name it is not a bread roll!
A Bap.
a loaf...a roll of bread lol
Baps.
Always called it a roll - I think it is regional differences that call it all the weird and wonderful names!
well being from oldham we have a thing about this and they are called MUFFNS not baps barm cakes cobs or what else you want to call them its muffins get it right people lol
You call them, bread rolls, everything else is somethng else
its a barm cake......... (i have no idea why)?
In Lancashire they are called TEACAKES
I am from the south and we call them rolls but when I lived in Oldham they called them Barm cakes.
they are all similar, & vary from region to region. A Barm cake is slightly sweeter.
I've always called a bread roll, a bread roll.
I moved home a couple of years ago, and everyone here refers to a bread roll as a cob.
1)A cob is a roundish lump of coal, or a domed loaf of bread.
2)A batch is an instalment, or the loaves produced at one baking.
3)A barm is the froth on fermenting liquor.
4)A roll is a small portion of bread individually baked.
I think I'll keep calling a roll, a roll.
Loaf
In Bristol we call them baps but in Middlesbrough where I'm from we call the fadgies.
On this side of the Pond, they're called BUNS. See, we're not all Puritans over here!
A baguette.
or
a pannini
or
ciabatta
I'd never have a plain white roll - yuk.
Region: S. Oxfordshire, Uk
In West Yorkshire we call them teacakes
Lincolnshire say baps
barm cake in the north bap in the south - they are flat and soft barm should be floured but no so today because of factory baking
Barm is the old name for working yeast and in days gone by the 'cakes' were yeasty. Baps were also made in the north but were slightly different, not floured etc.
Cob is crusty batch should be soft. A bread roll is generic and can be any size or shape all the others are quite specific.
Many of the regional specialities have been reduced to the flat roll similar to a burger roll - all made the same. Boring....bring back the differences.