spoon bread

American  

noun

1. Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a baked dish made with cornmeal, milk, eggs, and shortening, served as an accompaniment to meat.

2. Dialect. any of various types of biscuits shaped by dropping batter into a baking pan from a spoon.

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Etymology

Origin of spoon bread

An Americanism dating back to 1905–10

Example Sentences

Kelly Vaughan grew up eating what she knows as corn casserole, and what you may know as a corn bowl or spoon bread.

From Salon • Aug. 27, 2022

The chef-owners Rita Sodi and Jody Williams spent years poring over old Shaker recipes and cookbooks as inspiration for its dishes, which include spoon bread, oxtail and ginger cake.

From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2022

Then the choices are smoked cod cakes, country ham, marrow with mushrooms, greens with buttermilk dressing, spoon bread and baked apple.

From New York Times • Dec. 21, 2021

I copied the theory of his menus—which always included a surprise fourth item like those crab apples or carrot pudding or spoon bread.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 6, 2006

I made white bread, brown bread, corn bread, and spoon bread.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly