Spanish bread rolls

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Spanish bread rolls

Spanish bread rolls (also Spanish Brödli , Spanisch Brötli or Spanischbrödli ) are a pastry specialty from Baden in Switzerland .

The original form is an airy pastry made from puff pastry with a high proportion of butter . Spanish rolls are square with a side length of about 8 cm, coated with ice cream on top and scratched crosswise.

The pastry gets its name from its origins in Milan , which was under Spanish rule in the 16th century. The Spanish bread rolls were first mentioned in 1701 in a book by Samuel Hottinger about the city and baths of Baden. In what was then Switzerland, Spanish bread rolls became known in the 17th and 18th centuries, when Baden was the meeting place of the Swiss Confederation and the leading politicians of the cantons regularly came to Baden with their entourage. It was particularly popular with wealthy people from Zurich, who often went to Baden for a cure . In Reformed Zurich , bakers were forbidden to make such luxury pastries, so the servants of the leading Zurich families had to walk the 25 km from Zurich to Baden at night in order to buy the pastries in the morning and serve them as fresh as possible to the gentlemen for Sunday breakfast.

When the Swiss Northern Railway from Zurich to Baden was inaugurated as the first railway line in Switzerland in 1847 , the Spanish bread rolls could be transported from Baden to Zurich in 45 minutes. This use of the railway was so popular that the railway line was popularly known as the Spanish Brötli Railway .

In the 20th century, the Spanish bread was hardly known until it was restored on the occasion of the Badenfahrt . For the Badenfahrt 2007 Baden bakery next to the original have created some new versions, salty or with a hazelnut carrot -Filling under the brand name Spanischbrödli be sold. The brand is owned by the city of Baden.

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