spoon bread
noun
Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a baked dish made with cornmeal, milk, eggs, and shortening, served as an accompaniment to meat.
Dialect. any of various types of biscuits shaped by dropping batter into a baking pan from a spoon.
Origin of spoon bread
1An Americanism dating back to 1905–10
Words Nearby spoon bread
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How to use spoon bread in a sentence
Custardy pumpkin spoon bread dances on the line between sweet and savory.
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