Definition of Spoon bread

1. Noun. Soft bread made of cornmeal and sometimes rice or hominy; must be served with a spoon (chiefly southern).

Exact synonyms: Batter Bread
Generic synonyms: Cornbread

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spoon Bread

spoomed
spooming
spooms
spoon-billed
spoon-bowl
spoon-bowls
spoon-fed
spoon-feed
spoon-feeding
spoon-feeds
spoon-meat
spoon-meats
spoon bowl
spoon bowls
spoon bread (current term)
spoon excavator
spoon excavators
spoon food
spoon lure
spoon lures
spoon nail
spoonable
spoonbender
spoonbenders
spoonbending
spoonbill
spoonbill catfish
spoonbilled
spoonbills

Literary usage of Spoon bread

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Aunt Caroline's Dixieland Recipes by Emma McKinney, William McKinney (1922)
"spoon bread Two and one-half cups of fresh buttermilk, One scant half teaspoonful of soda mixed in with milk, One teaspoonful of salt, Three tablespoonsful ..."

2. Southern Recipes Tested by Myself by Laura Thornton Knowles (1913)
"SPOON 'BREAD One and a half cups of meal, one and a half cups of milk, three eggs, a tablespoonful of lard, a tablespoonful of butter, two tea- spoonfuls of ..."

3. Old Seaport Towns of the South by Mildred Cram (1917)
"In my eagerness and confusion I put peaches and hog's head on the same plate and sugared my spoon-bread. The chicken was cold and jellied; ..."

4. Favorite Food of Famous Folk: With Directions for the Preparation Thereof by Henry Benjamin Whipple (1900)
"MY favorite dish is "spoon bread" and buttermilk ... spoon bread. One pint of coarse meal, two eggs, lump of butter size of a walnut, salt to taste. ..."

5. Castelar Crèche Cook Book by Castelar Crèche (Los Angeles, Calif.) (1922)
"spoon bread Place 3 cups milk in double boiler; when boiling add 1 cup white ... SOUTHERN spoon bread Two cups corn meal, 2 eggs, \l/2 cups of cold boiled ..."

6. Larkin Housewives' Cook Book: Good Things to Eat and how to Prepare Them by Larkin Co (1915)
"Next morning knead again and form into loaves; when quite light bake in a moderate oven. Southern spoon bread MRS. LEROY A. GRANT, ROSLINDALE, MASS. ..."

7. The Home Science Cook Book by Mary Johnson Lincoln, Anna Barrows (1902)
"Egg Bread, Batter Bread, and spoon bread. One of the delicious things in Southern cookery is known by these names in different sections of the South. ..."

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