salt-rising bread

8.4

A white wheat bread made with bacteria that can grow in salty dough and a cornmeal starter

noun
/sɔltˈraɪzɪŋ brɛd/

: pan de levadura salada

The unique flavor of salt-rising bread comes from its unusual fermentation process.

Examples

Some bakeries still offer salt-rising bread for customers seeking traditional recipes.
She learned to bake salt-rising bread from her grandmother, using an old family recipe.
I love salt-rising bread for breakfast.
Have you tried salt-rising bread before?
She learned to bake salt-rising bread from her grandmother, using an old family recipe.
Some bakeries still offer salt-rising bread for customers seeking traditional recipes.
The unique flavor of salt-rising bread comes from its unusual fermentation process.

Surface Forms

salt-rising bread singular

salt-rising breads plural

Morphology

salt-rising + bread

The compound is compositionally built from 'salt' + 'rising', so a B1 learner would likely infer it refers to a kind of bread associated with salt and a rising process (i.e., bread that rises because of or with salt). However, the term denotes a specific traditional leavening method (salt-tolerant bacteria) that is technical and not fully predictable from the constituents, so the meaning is only partly transparent.

Etymology

Salt-rising bread may come from a simple baking scene: a warm starter with added salt was kept hot so the dough would 'rise' thanks to tiny, salt-tolerant bacteria rather than ordinary yeast. That's why the name links salt and rising, and helps you remember this bread rises in a different way.