Bulkie roll

Bulkie roll

A bulkie roll or bulkie is a New England regional variety of sandwich roll. Sandwiches made with bulkie rolls are very common in area delicatessens, restaurants, and institutional food services. Bulkie rolls are larger and firmer than hamburger buns. The crust is usually "slightly" crisp or crunchy, but bulkies are not hard rolls. The bread within the roll is similar to ordinary white bread; with a texture that is neither very chewy nor very fluffy; without any yellow color or egg taste; and not noticeably sweet. Bulkie rolls are not topped with seeds.

They are similar to and sometimes equated with kaiser rollsref|chasan, but kaiser rolls are noticeably sweeter and often topped with poppy seeds.

Origin and usage

The name "bulkie" is probably not related to the English word "bulk", as bulkie rolls are not particularly large, only somewhat larger than a kaiser rollref|size Moreover, the name is almost always spelled "bulkie," not "bulky" and is not usually capitalized. It probably comes from the Polish word "bułka" (plural "bułki") 'bread roll'ref|bulki.

Examples of menu usage include:
*"Two of our handcrafted seafood cakes on a bulkie with lettuce and tomato"
*"Roast Beef Bulkie"
*"Fried or Char-grilled Chicken Breast Sandwich on Bulkie Roll"
*"Bacon, Egg, and Cheese Bulkie"
*"'Piled High' Served on your choice of white, rye, or pumpernickel bread—bulkie or onion roll"

Boston writer Alan Lupo recalls that in the 1940s "in the mornings, my mother ate a bulkie roll and drank a cup of coffee while reading the "Boston Post."

Lee Shai Weissbach writes of a Manchester, New Hampshire Jewish grocery store, pre-World-War-II, whose owner was, "affectionately remembered for 'the barrel of pickles and the hefty corned-beef sandwiches on bulkie rolls that he dispensed'".ref|weissbach

Notes

# Emily Chasan, 2004, "Tufts University: Off the Record"; College Prowler; ISBN 1-59658-135-2: "Local slang: "Bulkie Roll", a Kaiser roll for a sandwich"
# [http://www.recipesource.com/baked-goods/rolls/01/rec0135.html one bulkie recipe] calls for 4 cups of flour and yields 12 rolls, or 3 oz. flour per roll; for comparison, [http://www.recipesource.com/baked-goods/rolls/01/rec0155.html one Kaiser roll recipe] calls for 2 cups of flour and yields 8 rolls, or 2 oz. flour per roll.
# [http://www.fogiel.pl/tradycyjne.html Polish-language site showing a variety of bułki] , [http://www.poltran.com/pl.php4 computerized Polish-English translator] which renders "bułka" as "bread roll"
# Lee Shai Weissbach, 2005, "Jewish Life in Small-Town America : A History", Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-10671-8, p. 265

External links

* [http://www.recipesource.com/baked-goods/rolls/01/rec0135.html Recipe for bulkie rolls]


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