What is a British bap?

A bap is, at its simplest, a bread roll. At its more complicated, it is a tender pillow of dough, often made with milk, lard, and butter. A more humble, Scottish version of the brioche. The bap is the ideal bread for a simple meat sandwich. Whether that meat is leftover boiled beef, mutton, bacon, or sausages, the bap takes a simple meat and elevates it to one of the most steadying sandwiches a person could crave.

The bap is especially good for those mornings when soaking up all of last night's bad decisions is a top priority. While the bap makes an ideal bread for many sandwiches, they are particularly good for breakfast, especially if used to create a sausage bap, which is simply a sliced sausage stuffed inside a bap. The sausage baps ideal option of topping or dipping sauces is HP sauce as well as ketchup. Both of these tart sauces make an ideal partner to the simple elegance of the sausage.