twice-baked bread
- noun
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- After drying in the oven, the twice-baked bread became golden and crisp.
Examples
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The bakery's signature twice-baked bread is a local favorite for dipping in tea.
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She served coffee with homemade twice-baked bread as a crunchy treat.
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I love twice-baked bread with my morning coffee.
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The bakery sells fresh twice-baked breads every day.
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The bakery's signature twice-baked bread is a local favorite for dipping in tea.
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She served coffee with homemade twice-baked bread as a crunchy treat.
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After drying in the oven, the twice-baked bread became golden and crisp.
Synonyms
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5.9
A hard dry slice of sweet bread baked twice until crisp
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9.9
A sweet bread slice baked twice until brown and hard that people eat as a snack or babies chew
A thin slice of sweet bread baked twice until it is hard and crisp
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Morphology
twice-baked + bread
The compound is transparently compositional: 'twice-baked' decomposes into 'twice' (two times) + 'baked' (cooked in an oven), so a learner who knows those words plus 'bread' can readily infer that it is bread baked two times until crisp. This formation follows ordinary English compounding and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will understand the meaning.
Etymology
Twice-baked bread comes from a simple cooking idea: bakers twice-bake the bread by baking a loaf, slicing it, and baking the slices again. This second bake makes the pieces hard and golden, so the name refers to 'dry and crisp' bread made by baking it twice.