kummelweck

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1. A bread roll (typically a Kaiser roll) sprinkled with koshering salt and caraway seeds, often served with thinly sliced roast beef, popular in western New York.

   This is perfect for a large cocktail party served with small kummelweck rolls.

   1962, The Children's Hospital of Buffalo cook book

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   Beef on weck, Mr. Stern said, is one of the great roast beef sandwiches in the country — very thinly sliced rare roast beef on a bulky hard roll, also called a kummelweck, topped with big-grained salt and caraway seeds.

   2007 January 16, Karla Cook, “The Food Connection”, in New York Times

   Synonyms: weck