单词 | sweet bread |
释义 | sweet breadn.2 A sweet-tasting bread, pastry, cake, or biscuit. Cf. pan dulce n.Used both as a mass noun and as a count noun; cf. bread n. 1a, 1b.In some regions sweet bread refers to a specific recipe: thus in Newfoundland sweet bread is made with molasses and raisins, and in the Caribbean it contains raisins, spices, and often coconut. In both these regions it is traditionally served at Christmas or other holidays. In other contexts, sweet bread is used more generically and can refer to any sweet-tasting baked goods.It is not always possible to ascertain whether the form sweet bread represents a fixed collocation. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > [noun] > other confections or sweet dishes pionade1302 spinee1381 pokerouncea1450 strawberry cream1523 pannag1540 alkermes1547 sugar-bread1587 snow1597 flammick1600 Norfolk fool1623 fool1653 chocolate cream1702 meringue1706 steeple cream1747 trifle1755 snowball1769 sweet bread1777 marrangle1809 meteor1820 mimpins1820 Nesselrode1835 meringué1845 Swiss cream1845 turban1846 coconut cream1847 panforte1865 yokan1875 bombe1892 Eton mess1896 meringue Chantilly1901 streusel1909 rocky road1920 ringocandy1922 stem ginger1922 dulce de leche1923 kissel1924 some-more1925 cream-crowdie1929 Pavlova cake1929 s'more1934 cranachan1946 sugar-on-snow1947 calavera1948 suji halwa1955 vacherin1960 zuppa inglese1961 brûlée1966 pav1966 delice1967 banoffi1974 macaroon1985 Nanaimo1991 macaron1993 1777 Caledonian Mercury 19 July 3/3 (advt.) Mrs. Watson, at the back of the Grammar School, Dundee, begs leave to inform the Public, that she continues to make grave clothes and sweet breads, in room of Mrs. Key, deceased. 1837 Carlisle Jrnl. 8 Apr. I have seen rock-stick and sweet bread in her window. 1839 Fife Herald 24 Jan. 191/4 Nearly five hundred persons..were seated in the room, and treated during the evening with sweet-bread, fruits, pies, and beer. 1867 F. Dowsley Let. 24 Dec. in Maritime Monthly (1873) May 443 [Newfoundland] Oh, what a sad Christmas Eve and Christmas Day it is for me! I think I can see you making the sweet-bread and preparing everything comfortable for to-morrow. 1935 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 15 May 8/8 (advt.) Cakes etc:..Sweet Bread 1d. ea[ch]. 1965 ‘Lauchmonen’ Old Thom's Harvest ix. 112 [Guyana] They were sitting behind a sweet-bread tray in front of the village rumshop. 1973 Sunday Express (Trinidad & Tobago) 8 Apr. 6/2 The Harvard Club is holding a super sale of homemade cakes, hot-cross buns, sweetbread and sweets to raise funds for its children's cricket coaching scheme. 1986 L. A. Pederson et al. Ling. Atlas Gulf States: Concordance Sweet bread—like gingerbread. 2013 Radio Times 9 Nov. (South/West ed.) 111/3 He's equally taken with the local sweet bread, ensaïmada, until he discovers it's named after the Catalonian word for ‘pork lard’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.21777 |
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