Kaiser roll

English

A Kaiser roll featuring its characteristic star.

Alternative forms

• kaiser roll

Etymology

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

Noun

Kaiser roll (plural Kaiser rolls)

1. 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.
   • 1989 June 26, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):

     Did you see it?? It was the biggest bee in the world! It was the size of a Kaiser roll! It must've weighed 70 pounds!

Synonyms

• (star-emblazoned round bread roll): Vienna roll
• Kaiser (shortening)

Translations

star-emblazoned round bread roll

• Czech: kaiserka (cs) f
• Dutch: kaiserbroodje n, pistolet (nl) m
• German: Kaisersemmel (de) f
• Hungarian: császárzsemle (hu)
• Polish: kajzerka (pl) f
• Serbo-Croatian: kajzerica (sh)

See also

• Kümmelweck

Further reading

• Kaiser roll on Wikipedia.Wikipedia