salt-rising bread

[ sawlt-rahy-zing ]

noun

1. a kind of bread leavened with a fermented mixture of salted milk, cornmeal, flour, sugar, and soda.

Word History and Origins

Origin of salt-rising bread¹

An Americanism dating back to 1825–35

Example Sentences

In Western Maryland, for example, the recipes were simpler and farm-based, with foods such as salt-rising bread and bare steaks.

From Washington Post

Pearl Haines, a mentor to Brown who died in 2016, baked salt-rising bread for 90 years, starting at the age of 5.

From New York Times

They put on salt-rising bread and butter, bowls of stewed pumpkin, pumpkin pies and dried berry pies and cookies, cheese and honey and pitchers of milk.

From Literature

Roger had his first taste of salt-rising bread, which is made without yeast, and he voted it the best he ever ate.

From Project Gutenberg

If salt-rising bread does not fulfil the whole of this unpleasant description, it certainly does emphatically a part of it.

From Project Gutenberg