Houska is traditional bread roll baked and consumed in the Czech Republic. Typical ingredients include wheat flour (but other types can be used), water, yeast and salt. They are topped with poppy seeds, caraway seeds, linseeds or sea salt.[1][2] Rohlík is another form, similar or identical by ingredients, production, taste, size and price.

Houska

Type	Bread roll
Place of origin	Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Germany, Austria
Region or state	Bavaria
Main ingredients	Wheat flour, water, yeast, salt; poppy seeds, caraway seeds or sea salt
Media: Houska

A 2002 article in the Chicago Tribune published a recipe for a sweet variant, a lightly sweetened, traditional bread roll [3] containing a significant amount of sugar, eggs and cream, occasionally raisins, and may be covered in poppy seeds.[3]

See also

• List of bread rolls

References

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