What is "houska"

Houska is traditional bread roll baked and consumed in the Czech Republic. Typical ingredients include wheat flour (but other types can be used), water, yeast and salt. They are topped with poppy seeds, caraway seeds, linseeds or sea salt.

A 2002 article in the Chicago Tribune published a recipe for a sweet variant, a lightly sweetened, traditional bread roll containing a significant amount of sugar, eggs and cream, occasionally raisins, and may be covered in poppy seeds.

Houska is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• David Houska (born 1993), Czech footballer
• John Houska (born 1956), American soccer player
• Jovanka Houska (born 1980), English chess player
• Vincent Houška (1766–1840), Czech classical composer and musician