| Noun | 1. | 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 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 |