quick bread

quick bread

n.

A bread made with a leavening agent, such as baking powder, that expands during baking and requires no leavening period beforehand.

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Noun

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quick bread - breads made with a leavening agent that permits immediate baking bread, breadstuff, staff of life - food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked banana bread - moist bread containing banana pulp date bread - bread containing chopped dates date-nut bread - bread containing chopped dates and nuts nut bread - bread containing chopped nuts oatcake - thin flat unleavened cake of baked oatmeal Irish soda bread - round loaf made with soda and buttermilk; often containing caraway seeds and raisins fry bread, skillet bread - usually cooked in a skillet over an open fire: especially cornbread with ham bits and sometimes Irish soda bread cornbread - bread made primarily of cornmeal muffin, gem - a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan Yorkshire pudding - light puffy bread made of a puff batter and traditionally baked in the pan with roast beef scone - small biscuit (rich with cream and eggs) cut into diamonds or sticks and baked in an oven or (especially originally) on a griddle biscuit - small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda