Tiger bread

Tiger bread Dutch: Tijgerbrood is the commercial name for a loaf of bread of Dutch origin that has a mottled crust.

Tiger bread
Tiger bread rolls
TypeBread
Place of originNetherlands
Main ingredientsbread, Rice paste

Crust

The bread is generally made with a pattern baked into the top made by painting rice paste onto the surface prior to baking.[1][2][3] The rice paste that imparts the bread's characteristic flavor 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

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.[4]

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's parents wrote to the company to suggest it.[2]

In the San Francisco Bay Area it is called Dutch Crunch.[5]

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. "Tiger bread renamed giraffe bread by Sainsbury's". BBC News. 2012-01-31.
  3. "Tiger Bread". BBC Good Food. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
  4. "Marco Polo Bread - Wegmans".
  5. Jonathan Kauffman (2010-11-11). "Dutch Crunch: According to Nick Malgieri, a San Francisco Treat". SF Weekly.
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