Tiger bread
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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.{{cite web |title=How Tiger Bread Got Its Whimsical Name |url=https://www.foodrepublic.com/1542002/tiger-bread-name/ |website=Food Republic |access-date=18 October 2024}}
Crust
The bread is generally made with a pattern baked onto the top made by painting rice paste onto the surface prior to baking.{{cite web |last=Stamm |first=Mitch |date=1 June 2009 |title=Snap, crackle, crunch bread |url=http://modern-baking.com/bread_pastry/snap-crackle-crunch-0609/ |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714110217/http://modern-baking.com/bread_pastry/snap-crackle-crunch-0609/ |archivedate=14 July 2011 |accessdate=4 July 2011 |work=Modern-baking.com}}{{cite news |title=Tiger bread renamed giraffe bread by Sainsbury's |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16812545 |work=BBC News |date=31 January 2012 |access-date=26 January 2023}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/tiger-bread|accessdate=9 August 2020|title=Tiger Bread|publisher=BBC Good Food}} 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.{{Cn|date=March 2025}}
Other names
The bread originated in the Netherlands, where it is known as tijgerbrood{{cite book |last1=Ayto |first1=John |title=The diner's dictionary : word origins of food & drink |date=2012 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=9780191744433 |edition=2nd}} or tijgerbol (tiger bun), and where it has been sold at least since the early 1930s.{{Citation needed|date=January 2012}} 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.{{cite web |title=Marco Polo Bread - Wegmans |url=https://www.wegmans.com/products/bakery/bread-fresh-baked/italian-bread/marco-polo-bread.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180703190826/https://www.wegmans.com/products/bakery/bread-fresh-baked/italian-bread/marco-polo-bread.html |archive-date=3 July 2018}} In the San Francisco Bay Area it is called Dutch Crunch.{{cite web |author=Kauffman |first=Jonathan |date=11 November 2010 |title=Dutch Crunch: According to Nick Malgieri, a San Francisco Treat |url=https://archives.sfweekly.com/foodie/2010/11/11/dutch-crunch-according-to-nick-malgieri-a-san-francisco-treat |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181228035148/https://archives.sfweekly.com/foodie/2010/11/11/dutch-crunch-according-to-nick-malgieri-a-san-francisco-treat |archive-date=28 December 2018 |website=SF Weekly}}
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.
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