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

I made three loaves of salt rising bread and they were enormous, but we never got a taste of them.

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

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With a little practice, salt rising bread becomes less work to make than hop yeast bread.

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The experience of some persons is that salt rising bread is less apt to cause acidity in the stomach than hop yeast bread.

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One of the very few practical uses of the gaseous fermentation of carbohydrates is in making salt rising bread.

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