Tiger bread

Tiger bread
Tiger bread rolls
Type Bread
Place of origin Netherlands
Main ingredients sesame oil, bread, Rice paste

Tiger bread (also sold as Dutch crunch in the US and sometimes Giraffe bread in the United Kingdom) is the commercial name for a loaf of bread which has a mottled crust.

Crust

The bread is generally made with sesame oil, which gives it a distinct aroma, and with a pattern baked into the top made by painting rice paste onto the surface prior to baking.[1] The paste dries and cracks during the baking process. The rice paste crust also gives the bread a distinctive flavour. It 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

The name originated in the Netherlands, where it is known as tijgerbrood or tijgerbol (tiger roll), and where it has been sold at least since the early 1970s. The US supermarket chain Wegmans sells it as "Marco Polo" bread.[2]

A tiger bread loaf

In January 2012, the UK supermarket chain Sainsbury's announced that they would market the product under the name "giraffe bread", after a three-year-old girl wrote to the company to suggest it.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Snap, crackle, crunch bread". Modern-baking.com. 2009-06-01. Archived from the original on 2011-07-14. Retrieved 2011-07-04.
  2. ↑ "Marco Polo Bread - Wegmans".
  3. ↑ "Tiger bread renamed giraffe bread by Sainsbury's". BBC News. 31 January 2012.
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