dog bread
dog bread noun: a variant of cornbread, sometimes made into patties and fried.
Noun
dog bread (uncountable)
- 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
- Dog bread is just about the simplest way to consume cornmeal, short of simply parching it and eating it out of the hand. Served hot, with lots of butter, these crisp griddle cakes have a charm that can pair them well with sophisticated beef and pork roasts.2009, Bill Neal, Bill Neal's Southern Cooking
- 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
- Dog-bread, as Spratt's for instance, is convenient, but not good for regular use.1884, Charles M. Green, The Friend of All: A Cyclopaedia of Practical Information for the Housekeeper, the Gardener, the Farmer, the Artisan, the Business Man, and the Young Folks
Examples of dog bread in a sentence
- 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.1999, Mildred Council, Mama Dip's Kitchen:
- I guess the "dog bread" Miss Dora threw into the backyard was too great a treat to walk out on.2009, Brenda Starks Miles, Summer Nights/Dixie Dog Delights: And Other Memories:
- Dog bread must be made from good wheat flour, of a medium sort, mixed with 15 or 16 per cent of sweet, dry chopped meat, well baked and dried like pilot bread or crackers.1910, Gardner Dexter Hiscox, Henley's twentieth century book of recipes, formulas and processes, page 265:
- Do not eat dog bread yourself — you might grow a tail and bark.1926 August, Boys' Life, page 57:
Forms of dog bread
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Questions about dog bread
- What does dog bread mean?
- Dog bread means a variant of cornbread, sometimes made into patties and fried.
- How do you use dog bread in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is dog bread?
- Dog bread is a noun.
Words near dog bread in the dictionary
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