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. Within the United States, it is popular in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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History
Tiger bread is thought to have originated in Germany, not the Netherlands or Northern European countries.
Its first appearance in California's Bay area is traced by some sources to its sale by Galli's Sanitary Bakery in South San Francisco, beginning in 1909.
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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. 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 (translation: 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.
In January 2012, the UK supermarket chain Sainsbury's announced, after a three-year-old girl wrote to the company to suggest it, that they would market the product under the name "giraffe bread".
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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