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]
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| Type | Bread |
|---|---|
| Place of origin | Netherlands[1] |
| Main ingredients | bread, Rice paste |
Crust
editThe 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.
Other names
editThe name 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]
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
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- ^ a b "How Tiger Bread Got Its Whimsical Name". Food Republic. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
- ^ Stamm, Mitch (1 June 2009). "Snap, crackle, crunch bread". Modern-baking.com. Archived from the original on 14 July 2011. Retrieved 4 July 2011.
- ^ a b "Tiger bread renamed giraffe bread by Sainsbury's". BBC News. 31 January 2012. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
- ^ "Tiger Bread". BBC Good Food. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
- ^ Ayto, John (2012). The diner's dictionary : word origins of food & drink (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780191744433.
- ^ "Marco Polo Bread - Wegmans". Archived from the original on 3 July 2018.
- ^ 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.