Breads

🇷🇼Rwanda

Umugati

Bread made from cassava flour, baked or steamed; a traditional Rwandan preparation using the country's most important root crop; cassava is processed to remove toxins, then ground and cooked into a dense bread.

🇷🇼Rwanda

Umutsima

Gluten-free cake made from cassava flour and corn flour, baked into a dense, slightly sweet dessert; served at weddings, events, and celebrations; a uniquely Rwandan confection using the country's staple crops.

🇨🇳Xinjiang, China

Uyghur Nan Bread

馕

A wheel of dense wheat bread stamped in the centre with a nail pattern, sprinkled with sesame and onion, baked against the wall of a clay tandoor.

🇨🇭Valais, Switzerland

Valais Rye Bread

Pain de seigle valaisan

A dense round loaf of mostly rye, dark and slightly sour, baked hard so it keeps for weeks in a mountain chalet.

🇳🇴Bergen, Norway

Vannkringler (Bergen Pretzel Bread)

Vannkringler

Vannkringler (Bergen Pretzel Bread) is a bread or flatbread from Bergen, rooted in local cooking tradition.

🇨🇰Cook Islands

Varaoa Karo

Varaoa karo is the named Cook Islands bread form, baked from a simple flour dough until the crust is firm and the crumb stays tender; it is served with tea or savoury island foods.

🇩🇰Denmark

Varme Hveder (Warm Wheat Buns)

Varme hveder

A Danish spiced cardamom wheat bun, served warm on Store Bededag (Great Prayer Day), a national and seasonal classic.

🇬🇷Greece

Vasilopita

Βασιλόπιτα

Greek New Year's cake: a sweet, orange-scented cake or bread with a hidden coin (flouri). Cut on January 1, blessing the year, a national tradition, festive and sweet, a family ritual.

🇬🇧Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Veda Bread

A soft, sweet, malted brown loaf with a sticky crumb, baked commercially and eaten toasted with butter.

🇦🇺Melbourne, Australia

Vegemite on Toast

Vegemite Toast

Vegemite on toast combines crisp buttered bread with a thin scrape of dark yeast spread for a distinctly salty breakfast.

🇳🇦Namibia

Veldt

Veldt bread

Dense Namibian campfire bread of whole wheat flour, milk, salt, sugar, cinnamon, and ginger — originally prepared by European settlers, baked over a campfire with baking powder for quick rising.

🇿🇦South Africa

Vetkoek

Amagwinya

A South African deep-fried yeast dough ball, crispy outside and soft inside, sold as amagwinya in townships and filled with mince, polony, cheese, or jam

🇻🇮U.S. Virgin Islands

Virgin Islands Sweet Bread

Sweet Bread

Hand-kneaded spiced sweet bread made with butter and shortening, fragrant spices (cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, mace, cardamom, dried orange peel), raisins, walnuts, and prunes; baked low and slow for a moist, richly colored loaf; a holiday tradition.

🇧🇾Vitebsk, Belarus

Vitebsk Rye

Віцебскі хлеб

A scalded-rye loaf from Vitebsk, darker and stickier in the crumb than ordinary rye, with a faint sweetness from the fermented mash.

🇯🇪Jersey

Vraic Buns

Gallette de Vraic

Very large sweet raisin buns traditionally eaten by farmers during seaweed (vraic) harvesting; made with flour, raisins, eggs, butter, and milk; a traditional Jersey baking specialty associated with the vraic harvest.

🇨🇿Czech Republic

Vánočka

Vianočka

A Czech braided sweet Christmas bread with raisins and almonds, a festive and cultural icon

🇫🇷France

Walnut Bread

Pain aux noix

Bread studded with walnuts, often from the Dordogne region.

🇮🇪Waterford, Ireland

Waterford Blaa

Blaa

A Waterford soft white bread roll with a floury crust, a daily and regional classic

🇬🇧Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Wheaten Bread

A Northern Irish yeast-free soda bread made with wholewheat flour, buttermilk and butter, dusted with oats, eaten fresh with butter and jam.

🇨🇦Winnipeg, Canada

Winnipeg Rye Bread

Pain de seigle de Winnipeg

Distinctive rye bread from Winnipeg, made with cracked rye and sourdough, Prairie staple with Ukrainian influence.

🇸🇪Sweden

Wort Bread

Vörtbröd

Sweet festive bread made with brewer's wort, dark syrup, and spices, traditionally served at Christmas and Easter.

🇪🇹Ethiopia

Yemarina Yewotet Dabo

የማሪና የወተት ዳቦ

Literally 'honey and milk bread' — a festive, slightly sweet, enriched loaf made with milk, honey, butter, eggs and warm spices (cardamom, cinnamon, allspice). Traditionally baked for Ethiopian Christmas and special occasions.

🇨🇭Switzerland

Zopf

A plaited loaf of white flour, milk and butter, glazed with egg and baked golden, eaten at Sunday breakfast.

🇦🇽Åland Islands

Åland Black Bread

Svartbröd

Dark brown bread from Åland, made with finely ground malt, intensely colored and dense with sweet malt flavor.