Dear Ceaser,
I share your taste for my daily bread, especially as the New York bagel has become an inflated mutant, an old fashioned bagel on steroids. However, there is some thought that the kaiser roll's name came from the German word for cheese, Kase [with an umlaut over the a] The absence of this hard roll on my trips to the hinterlands, and even at the German Bakery in San Francisco, has been a deep disappointment to me. At least no one has made a "cinnamon raisin" Kaiser roll.
Happy bird watching,
Arthur Pinewood :brains:
Bread is not enough. We demand circuses![/QUOTE
Arthur,
That's entirely possible. It's unlikely that a German Baker would name a lowly bun, no matter how tasty, after German nobility. He would keep them for his everyday customers. Kaiser rolls are excellent when eaten with lagerkase, or muenster, or limburger and onion, or a variety of wursts. Heaven forfend if they start making them with raisins. Although, on 2nd thought they might go very well with Peanut Butter.
Gut essen!
Bob