salt-rising breadn.
/ˌsɔːltrʌɪzɪŋ ˈbrɛd/, /ˌsɒltrʌɪzɪŋ ˈbrɛd/, U.S. /ˌsɔltraɪzɪŋ ˈbrɛd/, /ˌsɑltraɪzɪŋ ˈbrɛd/ North American.
A type of bread made with a base of cornmeal, salt, and milk or water, which rises as a result of the action of a bacterium found in cornmeal.
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1854 Trans. Michigan State Agric. Soc. 5 73 Mrs. J. L. Stout, Troy, 2 loaves salt rising bread.
1865 H. B. Stowe House & Home Papers 236 Salt-rising bread.
1933 Sun (Baltimore) 3 Feb. 10/7 Only a slight quantity of corn meal is used in the preparation of salt-rising bread.
1973 L. Russell Everyday Life Colonial Canada viii. 96 ‘Salt-rising’ bread was made without benefit of yeast.
2000 E. Gilchrist Cabal & Other Stories 224 Dakota..pulled a couple of pieces of salt-rising bread out of a sack on the passenger seat floor.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021).
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