salt-rising bread

[sawlt-rahy-zing]

salt-ris·ing bread

[sawlt-rahy-zing]
noun
a kind of bread leavened with a fermented mixture of salted milk, cornmeal, flour, sugar, and soda.

Origin:
1825–35, Americanism
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Salt-rising bread is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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salt-rising bread

noun
white wheat bread raised by a salt-tolerant bacterium in a mixture of salt and either cornmeal or potato pulp 
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