Tiger bread

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Tiger bread
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Tiger bread rolls
Type Bread
Place of originNetherlands [1]
Main ingredients bread, Rice paste

Tiger bread (Dutch: Tijgerbrood), also known as Dutch crunch and under various brand names, is a bread of Dutch origin that has a mottled crust. [1]

Contents

Crust

The bread is generally made with a pattern baked onto the top made by painting rice paste onto the surface prior to baking. [2] [3] [4] The rice paste that imparts the bread's characteristic flavour dries and cracks during the baking process. The bread itself has a crusty exterior, but is soft inside. Typically, tiger bread is made as a white bread bloomer loaf or bread roll, but the technique can be applied to any shape of bread.[ citation needed ]

Other names

The bread originated in the Netherlands, where it is known as tijgerbrood [5] or tijgerbol (tiger bun), and where it has been sold at least since the early 1930s.[ citation needed ] The first published reference in the USA to "Dutch crunch" bread was in 1935 in Oregon, according to food historian Erica J. Peters, where it appeared in a bakery advertisement. The US supermarket chain Wegmans sells it as "Marco Polo" bread. [6] In the San Francisco Bay Area it is called Dutch Crunch. [7]

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A tiger bread loaf

In January 2012, the UK supermarket chain Sainsbury's announced that it would market the product under the name "giraffe bread", after a three-year-old girl wrote to the company to suggest it, and the letter and reply gained traction on her mother's social media account. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 "How Tiger Bread Got Its Whimsical Name". Food Republic. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
  2. ↑ Stamm, Mitch (1 June 2009). "Snap, crackle, crunch bread". Modern-baking.com. Archived from the original on 14 July 2011. Retrieved 4 July 2011.
  3. 1 2 "Tiger bread renamed giraffe bread by Sainsbury's". BBC News. 31 January 2012. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  4. ↑ "Tiger Bread". BBC Good Food . Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  5. ↑ Ayto, John (2012). The diner's dictionary : word origins of food & drink (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN   9780191744433.
  6. ↑ "Marco Polo Bread - Wegmans". Archived from the original on 3 July 2018.
  7. ↑ Kauffman, Jonathan (11 November 2010). "Dutch Crunch: According to Nick Malgieri, a San Francisco Treat". SF Weekly. Archived from the original on 28 December 2018.

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