
My recent time in Tamworth and Coventry has taught me the word 'batch' for these rolls - or am I mistaken?
(Btw - I'm a southerner - its a roll!!!)
SOFT - it's a bap.
CRUSTY - it's a cob.
End of! :shrug:
Black Country BoyWhat do you call a large soft flat Bread Roll?
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They are called a role because when making it you role the doe before flatening slightly.

A cob dammit!!!!From the Midlands!
And anyone who says "Batch" will feel my wrath![]()
Bap or Soft Roll
Sold on Clitheroe market in Lancashire as a tea cake or barm cake. Just to add a bit of confusion, if its baked on the top shelves its a barm cake, further down they call them oven bottoms !!!
In Lancashire they're called teacakes. Smaller and fatter they're called baps.
Oven bottoms, or muffins, are turned over during baking to create the golden, flat baked top.
They're all based on the same bread mix, but teacakes have a longer 'proving', or rising time. Unless they're currant teacakes and they have added . . . currants.
Definitely a teacake. There are "plain" teacakes and "currant" teacakes but that's it.