Czech Cuisine - Pastry

Pastry

Bread (chléb or chleba) is very often, baked from rye or rye and wheat, flavoured with salt, cumin or onion, or garlis, or seeds. It is eaten to many soups and dishes. It is also material for Czech croutons and for topinky(plural) which is slice of bread fried on a pan from both sides, smeared with garlic.

Roll (rohlík), bun called (žemle) and braided bun (houska) are with bread the most common for breakfast and often topped with poppy and salt or seeds. A bun or a roll baked from bread dough is called dalamánek.

Loupák (Sweet roll) - is a roll in C shape from sweeter dough containing milk. It is smeared with egg and sprinkled with poppy before baking.