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Country
Name
Description
Comments
Italy
Focaccia
Sage or rosemary bread rich in olive oil This is a close cousin of
pizza dough
Tuscan bread
Panettone
Large round shape
Sweet, rich yeast bread flavored with
raisins, citron and lemon rind
Baked particularly for
family celebrations
Grissini
A crisp bread stick with sesame seeds
Sweet, rich in eggs and butter
A daily consumable in France
Fugazza di Pasqua
French baguette
Traditional Easter bread
France
Shelflife very short -
best if eaten within
hours of baking
Natte
Sweet, rich egg bread resembling
challah
Contains gruyere
cheese
Germany
Pumpernickel
Hutzelbrot
Heavy and dark
Made with molasses,
cocoa rye and bran
Black yeast bread using sourdough rye
Contains dried apricot
and prune or citron
Stollen
A traditional sweet bread
Yeast bread, sweet and rich
England
Sally Lunn
Generally baked in a
tube pan
London bloomer
Sweet
Characteristic cross on
top
Crumpet or currant
bread
Like soft English muffin
Made with mashed potatoes and raisins
Fried on a griddle in a
ring
Ireland
Freckle bread
Barmbrack
Sweet spice bread with cinnamon,
allspice, lemon or orange rind and
raisins
A little treasure or ring
is baked in the center of
this one
Portugal
Greece
Broa
Round yeast bread that includes corn
flour
Rich sweet bread made
with crème fraîche
Vasilopeta
Rich sweet bread with cinnamon, anise Served traditionally on
and coriander
New Year's Day
Served at Easter
Served at Easter
Lambropsoma
Tsoureki
Spiced bread with allspice
Spiced bread with masticha (Greek
flavoring)
Mint bread
Flavored with mint, onion and black
olives
Christopsoma
Flavored with anise
Very rich in eggs
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