A Swedish-style saffron bun traditionally consumed en masse with Christmas at hand.

A bun is a sweet or plain small bread or a round roll. It can be consumed as-is, made into a sandwich, or designed to be cut in half and filled with ingredients. "Bun" can also refer to a kind of filled dumpling, such as Chinese baozi. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (2272x1704, 159 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): St. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (2272x1704, 159 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): St. ... Look up Sweet in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Percentages are relative to US recommendations for adults. ... Two rolls Bread Rolls at a bakery Bread Rolls in a basket A bread roll is a piece of bread, usually small and round and is commonly considered a side dish. ... An Italian sandwich. ... The baozi (Chinese: 包子; pinyin: ), bao tze (Wade-Giles romanization), or bau, is a type of steamed, filled bun or bread-like item in Chinese cuisine. ...

Types of bun

• Bath bun
• Belgian bun
• Cinnamon bun
• Chelsea bun
• Colston bun
• Hamburger bun
• Hot cross bun
• Hot dog bun
• London bun
• Mantou - Chinese steamed bun
• Saffron bun
• Spiced bun

The Bath bun is a rich, sweet yeast dough shaped round that has a lump of sugar baked in the bottom and more crushed sugar sprinkled on top after baking. ... A Belgian bun is an iced bun, covered with raisins and usually topped with half a glazed cherry. ... A cinnamon roll (also cinnamon bun) is a type of pastry found commonly in North America. ... The Chelsea has hot buns! was first created in the eighteenth century at the Bun House in Chelsea, an establishment favoured by Hanoverian royalty and demolished in 1839. ... A Colston bun is named after Sir Edward Colston and made in the city of Bristol, England. ... Hamburgers often contain lettuce, onions, and other toppings, as shown here. ... Hot cross buns Czech hot cross buns called mazanec A hot cross bun is a type of sweet spiced bun made with currants and leavened with yeast. ... A hot dog bun is a type of bun shaped specifically to contain a hot dog. ... A London bun is also known as a candlegrease bun due to the white sugar icing that is used atop this finger shaped or elongated bun made of rich yeast dough that is flavored with either currants or caraway seeds. ... Mantou or man tou (Simplified Chinese: 馒头; Traditional Chinese: 饅頭; pinyin: ), sometimes known as Chinese steamed bun, is a kind of steamed buns typically served in Northern Chinese cuisine. ... A Saffron bun is a rich yeast dough bun that is flavored with saffron and cinnamon or nutmeg and contains currants. ... A spiced bun is a bun into which spices were added during the making process. ...

Other meanings

• Bún is a type of rice vermicelli served in Vietnamese cuisine.
• "Bun" may refer to a hairstyle in which the hair is pulled back and tied up in the shape of a bun, such as that of Princess Leia.
• Bun is a commune of the Hautes-Pyrénées département, in southwestern France.
• "Bun" is a candy bar manufactured by Pearson's.
• "BUN" may also refer to Blood Urea Nitrogen, a common lab test ordered by physicians.
• In North American English, "buns" is a slang term for the buttocks. It can also mean breasts.
• "Bun" is an Internet slang term meaning newbie, formed by reversing the letters of the word "nub." "Bunned" has also come to mean essentially the same as "pwned." This has seen particular prominance in FYAD, an internet message board.
• Bun also means the smoking of cannabis in some parts of Canada; this derives from the word "burn."
• Bun is also a slang term for the slang term shag. This can be said as "bunner" meaning shagger, and "bunning" meaning shagging.

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