A round of bread is a piece of cooked dough

Dough

Dough is a paste made out of any cereals or leguminous crops by mixing flour with a small amount of water and/or other liquid. This process is a precursor to making a wide variety of foodstuffs, particularly breads and bread-based items , flatbreads, noodles, pastry, and similar items)...

 in its simplest form, a round lump

Lump

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. It is the most suitable form to oven cook bread

Bread

Bread is a staple food prepared by cooking a dough of flour and water and often additional ingredients. Doughs are usually baked, but in some cuisines breads are steamed , fried , or baked on an unoiled frying pan . It may be leavened or unleavened...

 on a flat dish and, although one of the oldest oven-bread methods, continues to be one of the most common practiced, particularly in flour buns (such as the bap, the Blaa

Blaa

A blaa is a doughy, white bread bun speciality which, according to a writer in The Irish Times is currently particular to Waterford City and County, Ireland., but historically, the blaa is also known to have been made in Kilkenny and Wexford....

 or more familiar, the burger bun). Breads of a traditional nature, predating the availability of shaped and pre-sliced bread

Sliced bread

Sliced bread is a loaf of bread which has been pre-sliced and packaged for convenience. It was first sold in 1928, advertised as "the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped." This led to the popular phrase, "the greatest thing since sliced bread".- History :Otto...

, are commonly made as a round with some examples made alomost exclusively as rounds being soda bread

Soda bread

Soda bread is a variety of quick bread traditionally made in a variety of cuisines in which sodium bicarbonate is used as a raising agent rather than the more common yeast. The ingredients of traditional soda bread are flour, bread soda, salt, and buttermilk...

 and wheaten bread. "Round of bread" continues to be a common English language

English language

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 term when requesting or describing a single piece of bread but as true rounds of bread are less common these days the term is more ambiguous.

See also

• Pain de campagne
  Pain de campagne
  Pain de campagne is typically a large round loaf made from a natural leavening similar to, but not as sour as, American sourdough. Most traditional versions of this bread are made with a combination of white flour with whole wheat flour and/or rye flour, water, leavening and salt...
  
  
• Sourdough
  Sourdough
  Sourdough is a dough containing a Lactobacillus culture, usually in symbiotic combination with yeasts. It is one of two principal means of biological leavening in bread baking, along with the use of cultivated forms of yeast . It is of particular importance in baking rye-based breads, where yeast...
  
  
• Pandesal
  Pandesal
  Pan de sal is a rounded bread made of flour, eggs, yeast, sugar, and salt. It has become a common food in the Philippines.-Description:...
  
  
• Stottie cake
  Stottie cake
  A Stottie cake or stotty is a type of bread produced in North East England. It is a flat and round loaf , with an indent in the middle produced by the baker. Elsewhere in the world, bread considered similar to the stottie is known as Oven Bottom Bread. One chief difference is the heavy and...