salt-rising bread

American  

[sawlt-rahy-zing] / ˈsɔltˌraɪ zɪŋ /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of salt-rising bread

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

There was salt-rising bread, too, and cold boiled pork, and pickles.

From Literature

And Mr. Vanter did full justice to the tender chicken, fried crisp in sweet butter, the salt-rising bread, the buckwheat honey, the preserved plums, the generously frosted fruit and chocolate cakes, and a lot besides.

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