Kaiser roll

Betekenis (Engels)

A typically crusty round bread roll supposedly invented in Vienna, made from flour, barm, malt, water, and salt, and whose characteristic feature is a five-spoked propeller- or pinwheel-like star on its obverse.

Vertalings

Kaisersemmel

Kaiserbrötchen

Etimologie (Engels)

Calque of German Kaisersemmel, from Kaiser (“emperor”) + Semmel (“roll”), so named in honour of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria.