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Sandwich roll

A Mexican sandwich roll or "telera" from Colonia Asturias in Mexico City
Alternative names	Telera Mexican sandwich roll
Type	Bread roll
Place of origin	Mexico
Region or state	Mexico and Central America
Main ingredients	Flour, Yeast, sugar, and water

Sandwich rolls (Spanish: telera), often referred as teleras or Mexican sandwich rolls, are a type of white bread usually made from wheat flour, yeast, water and salt, used in various Mexican sandwiches.

Etymology and terms

A crusty french-style sandwich roll is often called a birote, this form of sandwich rolls typically found in Jalisco. The word telera comes from a similar bread from Andalusia. The term telera also means a either a plow pin or a corral and comes from Vulgar Latin *tēlāria. A tortero is one who is in charge of a sandwich roll.

See also

• Telera (Spanish bread)
• List of breads

References

Specific

1. Greathouse, Patricia (2009). Mariachi. Gibbs Smith. p. 154. ISBN 978-1-4236-0281-1.
2. "Mexican Slang Dictionary". Alasdair Baverstock. 2020-02-07. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
3. Kennedy, Diana (2008-04-08). The Art of Mexican Cooking: Traditional Mexican Cooking for Aficionados: A Cookbook. Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed. p. 370. ISBN 978-0-307-38325-9.
4. Roberts, Edward A. (2014). A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots. Xlibris Corporation. p. 602. ISBN 978-1-4931-9113-0.
5. Halse, Edward (1908). A Dictionary of Spanish and Spanish-American Mining, Metallurgical and Allied Terms: To which Some Portuguese and Portuguese-American (Brazilian) Terms are Added. C. Griffin & Company. p. 333.

General

• Muñoz, Zurita, (2013), Diccionario enciclopédico de la gastronomía mexicana. Ed. Larousse. ISBN 978-6072106192

External links

• Mexican Telera Sandwich Recipe at the Food Network

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