spoon bread
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5.1
- noun
- /spuːn brɛd/
- US
:
pan de cuchara
- MISS RAWLINGS, YOU BE WANTIN' BEATEN BISCUITS WITH YOUR LUNCH, OR SPOON BREAD?
- make spoon bread
- spoon bread and sweet potato
Examples
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I'm making spoon bread.
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Ruby brought their food then, two plates piled high with grilled chicken, mixed vegetables, and Ruby's famous spoon bread, plus a small plateful of scraps for Spot.
Fiction book (2001) -
"I didn't get any spoon bread, remember?"
Fiction book (1990) -
I guess mama still makes spoon bread and peach cobbler.
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The four of them have spoon bread and coffee while Plummy waits, tight-faced, in the car.
Fiction book (1990) -
She has left spoon bread, collards, and slabs of our own salt-cured ham for my supper.
Fiction book (1996) -
There'd be collard greens with bacon, a big pot of hoppin' john, corn on the cob, and fried spoon bread.
Fiction book (2000) -
Mrs. Firkin says in response to her husband's "Who could go for spoon bread?" For an instant, the questions just hang there, hooks agape, as Mr. Firkin, braking hard, angles into the exit lane.
Fiction book (1990) -
When visiting the South, you must try the delicious spoon bread served with fried chicken.
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At the family gathering, Grandma made her famous spoon bread that everyone eagerly looked forward to.
Synonyms
A soft baked food made from ground corn like a pudding that people eat with a spoon
A soft bread made from cornmeal with a wet, thick mixture you eat with a spoon
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is built transparently from 'spoon' + 'bread' so a B1 learner who knows both words would likely infer it is a kind of bread eaten with a spoon (i.e., soft or spoonable). However, the specific culinary sense (a Southern US cornmeal-based, moist dish) and regional cultural information are not fully predictable from the constituents alone, so it is only partially inferable.
Etymology
Spoon bread may come from how the dish was served in the American South: cooks made a very soft corn mixture, more like a warm pudding than a loaf, so people ate it with a spoon instead of tearing bread by hand. That's why spoon bread today means 'a soft, moist bread you eat with a spoon'.