QUICK BREAD

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Meaning:

Breads made with a leavening agent that permits immediate baking

Classified under:

Hypernyms ("quick bread" is a kind of...):

bread; breadstuff; staff of life (food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "quick bread"):

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)

gem; muffin (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)