A Kitchener bun is a type of sweet pastry made and sold in South Australia

South Australia

South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories.South Australia shares borders with all of the mainland...

. It consists of a bun sometimes baked, sometimes fried, made from a sweet yeasted dough similar to that used for making doughnut

Doughnut

A doughnut or donut is a fried dough food and is popular in many countries and prepared in various forms as a sweet snack that can be homemade or purchased in bakeries, supermarkets, food stalls, and franchised specialty outlets...

s, split and then filled with raspberry

Raspberry

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 or strawberry

Strawberry

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 jam and cream

Cream

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, most often with a dusting of sugar on the top.

The Kitchener bun resembles the Berliner

Berliner (pastry)

A Berliner Pfannkuchen is a predominantly...

, a pastry of German origin – although distinguished from it by an open face and a generous cream rather than jam content – and was, in fact, known as such until anti-enemy sentiment in World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

 led to its renaming in honour of the British field marshal

Field Marshal

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 Horatio Lord Kitchener.

See also

• Berlin to Kitchener name change
  Berlin to Kitchener name change
  Through the latter half of the 19th century and into the first decade of the 20th, the City of Berlin, Ontario, Canada, was a bustling industrial centre celebrating its German heritage...
  
  
• Australian place names changed from German names
  Australian place names changed from German names
  During World War I, many German-sounding place names in Australia were changed because of Anti-German sentiment. The new names were often Anglicized , given Aboriginal names , names of famous people , or battlefields . This was done through an Act of Parliament, as well as by petition...