Bun

Bun
Bread or bread roll
A Swedish-style saffron bun usually made during Christmas season, more specifically on Saint Lucy's Day
Main ingredient(s):
Flour, sugar, butter, milk, yeast, cardamom
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A bun is a small, sometimes sweet, bread or bread roll. Though they come in many shapes and sizes, they are most commonly hand-sized or smaller, with a round top and flat bottom.

Buns are usually made from flour, sugar, milk, yeast and butter. Common varieties contain small fruit or nuts, are topped with icing or caramel, or filled with jam or cream. Some types of buns are filled with various meats.

"Bun" may also refer to particular types of filled dumplings, such as Chinese baozi and Lutonian Halapchi. Some of these types of dumplings may be bread-like in texture.

List of buns

Various buns

B

• Bánh bao – (literally "enveloping cake") is a ball-shaped bun containing pork or chicken meat, onions, eggs, mushrooms and vegetables, in Vietnamese cuisine.
• Beef bun – a type of Hong Kong pastry. It is one of the most standard pastries in Hong Kong and can also be found in most Chinatown bakery shops. The bun has a ground beef filling, sometimes include pieces of onions.^[1][2]
• Baozi – a type of steamed, filled bun or bread-like (i.e. made with yeast) item in various Chinese cuisines, as there is much variation as to the fillings and the preparations.
• Bath bun – a rich, round sweet roll that has a lump of sugar baked in the bottom and more crushed sugar sprinkled on top after baking.^[3]
• Belgian bun – a sweet bun containing sultanas and usually topped with fondant icing and half a glace cherry.
• Blaa – a dough-like, white bread bun (roll) speciality particularly associated with Waterford, Ireland.^[4] Historically, the blaa is also believed to have been made in Kilkenny and Wexford.^[5]
• Boston bun – a large spiced bun with a thick layer of coconut icing, prevalent in Australia and New Zealand.
• Bun kebab – of Pakistani origin, it's a spicy patty which is shallow-fried, onions, and chutney or raita in a hamburger or hot dog bun.

C

Small currant buns

• Cream bun – Variations of cream buns exist all around the world. Typically they are made with an enriched dough bread roll that is split after baking and cooling and filled with cream.
• Cha siu bao – a Cantonese barbecue-pork-filled bun (baozi).^[6] The buns are filled with barbecue-flavored cha siu pork.^[6]
• Cheese bun – a variety of small, baked, cheese-flavored rolls, a popular snack and breakfast food in Bolivia, Brazil (specially in the state of Minas Gerais), Paraguay and northern Argentina.^[7][8]
• Chelsea bun – a type of currant bun that was first created in the 18th century at the Bun House in Chelsea,^[9] an establishment favoured by Hanoverian royalty which was demolished in 1839.^[10]
• Cinnamon bun – a sweet roll served commonly in Northern Europe and North America. Its main ingredients are dough, cinnamon, sugar, and butter, which provide a robust and sweet flavor.
• Cocktail bun – a Hong Kong-style sweet bun with a filling of shredded coconut. It is one of several iconic types of baked goods originating from Hong Kong.^[11]
• Colston bun – named after Sir Edward Colston and made in the city of Bristol, England. Composed of a yeast dough flavored with dried fruit, candied peel and sweet spices.
• Currant bun – a sweet bun that contains currants or raisins. In history, towards the end of the seventeenth century the Reverend Samuel Wigley founded the Currant Bun Company in Southampton, Hampshire UK.

D

• Dampfnudel – a white bread roll or sweet roll eaten as a meal or as a dessert in Germany and in France (Alsace). It is a typical dish in southern Germany.

F

• Fruit bun – a type of sweet roll made with fruit, fruit peel, spices and sometimes nuts. They are a tradition in Britain^[12] and former British colonies including Jamaica, Australia,^[13] Singapore,^[14] and India.^[15]

H

Hot cross buns

• Ham and egg bun – a type of Hong Kong pastry. It is a bun or bread that contains a sheet of egg and ham.^[16]
• Hamburger bun – typically round buns designed to encase a hamburger. The hamburger bun was invented in 1916 by a fry cook named Walter Anderson, who co-founded White Castle in 1921.^[17]
• Honey bun – a sweet roll of American origin, somewhat similar to the cinnamon bun, that is popular in the southeast United States.
• Hot Cross Bun – a spiced sweet bun made with currants or raisins and marked with a cross on the top, traditionally eaten on Good Friday in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Canada, but now popular all year round.^[18]
• Hot dog bun – a type of soft bun shaped specifically to contain a hot dog or frankfurter.

I

• Iced bun – a bread roll made to a sweet recipe with an icing sugar glaze covering the top

L

Lotus seed buns: this particular variety is available in many typical Cantonese restaurants as a type of dim sum.

• London bun – a finger-shaped or elongated bun made of rich yeast dough flavored with either currants or caraway seeds and topped with white sugar icing.
• Lotus seed bun – a Chinese sweet bun found in China. They're prepared by steaming a yeast-leavened dough that contains lotus seed paste.^[19]

M

• Mandarin roll – a steamed bun originating from China. The rolls are cooked by steaming. It is another one of the food staples of Chinese cuisine which is similar to white bread in western cuisine.
• Mantou – a type of steamed bread or bun originating in China. They are typically eaten as a staple in northern parts of China where wheat, rather than rice, is grown.
• Melonpan – a type of sweet bun from Japan, that is also popular in Taiwan, China and Latin America. They are made from an enriched dough covered in a thin layer of crisp cookie dough.

N

• Nikuman – made from flour dough, and filled with cooked ground pork or other ingredients. It is a kind of chūka man (中華まん lit. Chinese-style steamed bun) also known in English as pork buns.

P

A piece of sugary pan de muerto

• Pan de muerto – (Spanish for Bread of the Dead) (also called pan de los muertos) is a type of sweet roll traditionally baked in Mexico during the weeks leading up to the Día de los Muertos, which is celebrated on November 1 and 2. It is a sweetened soft bread shaped like a bun, often decorated with bone-like pieces.
• Peanut butter bun – a Hong Kong sweet bun found in Hong Kong as well as Chinatown bakery shops.^[20] The bun has layers of peanut butter fillings, sometimes with light sprinkles of sugar mixed with the peanut butter for extra flavor.
• Pebete – an Argentine soft oval bun made of wheat flour with a thin brown crust,^[21] rather like a fatter hot dog roll.
• Penny bun – or a penny loaf, was a small bread bun or loaf which cost one old penny at the time when there were 240 pence to the pound. A penny loaf was a common size loaf of bread in England regulated by the Assize of Bread Act of 1266. The size of the loaf could vary depending on the prevailing cost of the flour used in the baking.^[22] The nursery rhyme London Bridge Is Falling Down has a version which includes the line "Build it up with penny loaves".^[23]
• Piggy bun – a type of Hong Kong pastry that is essentially the equivalent of the French baguette. It is found in Hong Kong bakeries and Cha chaan teng. In Hong Kong, it is often cut to two half and put some butter and condensed milk to be served.^[24]
• Pineapple bun – a kind of sweet bun predominantly popular in Hong Kong and Macau,^[25] though they are not uncommon in Chinatowns worldwide.^[26] Although it is known as "pineapple bun", the traditional version contains no pineapple.
• Pork chop bun – a famous and popular snacks in Macau, the bun (piggy bun) is extremely crisp outside and very soft inside. A freshly fried pork chop is filled into the bun.

S

A street vendor in Chiang Mai, Thailand, selling various types of salapao

• Saffron bun – a rich, spiced yeast-leavened sweet bun that is flavored with saffron and cinnamon or nutmeg and contains currants similar to a teacake.
• Sally Lunn bun – a type of enriched yeast bread associated with the city of Bath in the West Country of England.
• Sausage bun – a type of Hong Kong pastry, essentially the equivalent of pigs in a blanket. It is found in Hong Kong as well as in many bakeries in Chinatowns in western countries.
• Semla – a traditional sweet roll made in various forms in Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden^[27] and Norway associated with Lent and especially Shrove Monday and Shrove Tuesday. The oldest version of the semla was a plain bread bun, eaten in a bowl of warm milk. In Swedish this is known as hetvägg.
• Siopao – a Hokkien term for bāozi (包 子), literally meaning "steamed buns".^[28] It has also been incorporated into Thai cuisine where it is called salapao (Thai: ซาลาเปา).^[29]
• Spiced bun – a sweet bun to which spices were added during the making process. Common examples are the hot cross bun and the Jamaican spiced bun.
• Sticky bun – a dessert or breakfast sweet roll that generally consist of rolled pieces of leavened dough — sometimes containing brown sugar or cinnamon — which are then compressed together to form a kind of flat loaf corresponding to the size of the baking pan. Sticky buns have been consumed since the Middle Ages, at which time cinnamon became more prominent.^[30]

T

• Tuna bun – a Hong Kong-style fish bun^[31] that contains tuna paste. It is commonly found in Hong Kong.^[32]

See also

References

External links

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