Rum rolls are a sweet yeast bread topped with rum frosting and sometimes including

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s or currants. They were a specialty of

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and have been included on the menus of numerous historic Washington restaurants, though they are not commonly found in the present day. Hogate's Restaurant was known for their version of the sweet bread, which included

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and raisins, reportedly selling an estimated 20,000 buns per week until they closed in 2001. The restaurant's chef described the buns as their

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. They were also available at Flagship, another

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located along the Southwest Waterfront in the 1970s. In 1979 ''The Montgomery Journal'' published the recipe for Flagship Rum Buns which were made with scalded milk and included raisins.

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