Houska is a traditional bread roll baked and consumed in the Czech Republic. Typical ingredients include wheat flour (but other types can be used), water, yeast and salt. They are topped with poppy seeds, caraway seeds, linseeds or sea salt.[1][2] Rohlík is another form, similar or identical in ingredients, production, taste, size and price.
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| Type | Bread roll |
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| Place of origin | Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Germany, Austria |
| Region or state | Bavaria |
| Main ingredients | Wheat flour, water, yeast, salt; poppy seeds, caraway seeds or sea salt |
A 2002 article in the Chicago Tribune published a recipe for a sweet variant, a Christmas season special variant called "vánočka". It is a lightly sweetened, traditional bread roll [3] containing a significant amount of sugar, eggs and cream, occasionally raisins, and may be covered in poppy seeds or almonds.[3]
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- ^ "Czech and International Bread". Archived from the original on 2012-06-26. Retrieved 2012-04-22.
- ^ Rumlová, Renata. "Slané kynuté těsto - housky (in Czech)". České noviny. Retrieved 12 December 2012.
- ^ a b Judy, Hevrdejs (Winter 2003). "From Prasky to Poutine: A window into other culture". Culinary Historians of Chicago Newsletter. Archived from the original on 2007-12-15.
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