I am trying to make a British cheese & onion sandwich. I think I know how I want to do the filling but I also need to get the bread. My understanding is that a classic cheese and onion sandwich is on something called granary-style Bread. I think the “-style” is added because Granary Bread is a trademark name for one particular brand.
I got this from the interwebz:
Granary-Style Bread is a classic English brown bread made with a mixture of whole wheat and white flours, with cracked grains of malted barley and wheat.
I want to buy this bread but I’m in the US. What is this kind of bread called here? I have seen suggestions that it’s called “malted grain” or “malted” but these names could mean different things for different brands, particularly, the seeds may be very different from brand to brand. Does anyone know how I can find that same bread (or close to it) in the US?
I’m unaware of any generic name, like you might be able to ask for. You’d just need to look through the ingredients/description of any particular bread that you encounter to figure out whether it might come out to be something like you want. Or make your own.
You might try some multigrain breads to see if they get you into the zone but, even there, that could give you anything from a hard crusted hearty bread to something more like a soft, squishy sandwich bread. You would need to try or review a few to find something in the right territory.
Thanks. Yeah. My big concern is that an American bread called sprouted or malted or multi-grain could potentially be wildly different from granary bread. I’m not really up to trying 20 different breads to see which, if any, are like the British bread I seek.
I can try to suss it out by reading the ingredients but I’m not confident that finding bread with the same ingredients will give me the same bread. And at this time I am unable to make the bread myself.
I wonder if this is a use-case where an AI search could actually help me. Maybe I can get it to search for American bread bands that have the same ingredient list of Brit granary-style bread?
I can’t help with the bread, but a cheese and onion sandwich sounds awesome and I’d be interested in the recipe/ingredients (I’m assuming there is more to it than cheese and onions on granary bread).
Ehhh - you’re putting my ignorance on display here. I don’t recall ever seeing an equivalent in the US, but then I haven’t been to the US in quite a few years - all I remember of American bread is: white and disturbingly sweet. (YMMV, of course).
Ooops - no blanket attack on American bread intended.
On every trip we’ve been on, either business or vacation, the bread I’ve eaten has typically been what that day’s restaurant provided - never been in a position to choose my own. And I guess I should add that I haven’t been to the US in well over a decade, so even my little knowledge may be well out of date.
