salt-rising bread

noun

A dense white bread that is traditional in the Appalachian Mountains, leavened by naturally occurring Clostridium perfringens and other bacteria rather than by yeast.

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Meanings

nounsalt-rising bread (countable and uncountable, plural salt-rising breads)

plural salt-rising breads

  1. countableuncountablecookingA dense white bread that is traditional in the Appalachian Mountains, leavened by naturally occurring Clostridium perfringens and other bacteria rather than by yeast.
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