dog-bread

Noun

dog bread (uncountable)

1. (US) A variant of cornbread, sometimes made into patties and fried.
   • Cornbread was on the table at each meal, but it was cooked in different ways: dog bread, milk bread, pone bread, fried bread, molasses bread, and clabber bread, which has a sour taste. The dog bread was put on the table each morning six days a week, cooked in a round cast-iron pan and cut like a...1999, Mildred Council, Mama Dip's Kitchen
2. (dated) A bread made for dogs to consume; a dog biscuit.
   • A large quantity of the different kinds of damaged meal is annually baked in London into what is called dog-bread, for kennels, &c.1810, William Dixon, An inquiry into the impolicy of the continuance of the prohibition of distillation from grain in Great-Britain