quick bread

/kwɪk brɛd/

Other forms: quick breads

Definitions of quick bread

1. noun

   breads made with a leavening agent that permits immediate baking
   types:

   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

   corn cake

   baked in a pan or on a griddle (southern and midland)

   skillet corn bread

   cornbread usually containing ham or bacon bits and cooked in a skillet

   ash cake, ashcake, corn tash

   corn bread wrapped in cabbage leaves and baked in hot ashes (southern)

   cornpone, pone

   cornbread often made without milk or eggs and baked or fried (southern)

   corn dab, corn dodger, dodger

   small oval cake of corn bread baked or fried (chiefly southern)

   hush puppy, hushpuppy

   deep-fried cornbread ball (southern)

   johnny cake, johnnycake, journey cake

   cornbread usually cooked pancake-style on a griddle (chiefly New England)

   batter bread, spoon bread

   soft bread made of cornmeal and sometimes rice or hominy; must be served with a spoon (chiefly southern)

   bran muffin

   muffin containing bran

   corn muffin

   cornbread muffin

   popover

   light hollow muffin made of a puff batter (individual Yorkshire pudding) baked in a deep muffin cup

   Scotch pancake, drop scone, griddlecake

   a scone made by dropping a spoonful of batter on a griddle

   rolled biscuit

   biscuit made from dough rolled and cut

   drop biscuit

   biscuit made from dough with enough milk that it can be dropped from a spoon

   baking-powder biscuit

   leavened with baking powder

   buttermilk biscuit, soda biscuit

   very tender biscuit partially leavened with buttermilk and soda

   hardtack, pilot biscuit, pilot bread, sea biscuit, ship biscuit

   very hard unsalted biscuit or bread; a former ship's staple

   type 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