staff of life

Other forms: staffs of life

Definitions of staff of life

1. noun

   food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked
   synonyms: bread, breadstuff

   types:

   anadama bread

   a yeast-raised bread made of white flour and cornmeal and molasses

   bap

   a small loaf or roll of soft bread

   barmbrack

   a rich currant cake or bun

   bread-stick, breadstick

   a crisp stick-shaped roll; often served with soup

   Boston brown bread, brown bread

   dark steamed bread made of cornmeal wheat and flour with molasses and soda and milk or water

   bun, roll

   small rounded bread either plain or sweet

   caraway seed bread

   bread containing caraway seeds

   challah, hallah

   (Judaism) a loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast; often formed into braided loaves and glazed with eggs before baking

   cinnamon bread

   bread flavored with cinnamon often containing raisins

   cracked-wheat bread

   bread made with cracked wheat that has been ground fine

   cracker

   a thin crisp wafer made of flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet

   crouton

   a small piece of toasted or fried bread; served in soup or salads

   brown bread, dark bread, whole meal bread, whole wheat bread

   bread made with whole wheat flour

   English muffin

   round, raised muffin cooked on a griddle; usually split and toasted before being eaten

   flatbread

   any of various breads made from usually unleavened dough

   garlic bread

   French or Italian bread sliced and spread with garlic butter then crisped in the oven

   gluten bread

   bread made with gluten flour

   Host

   a technical name for the bread used in the service of Mass or Holy Communion

   loaf, loaf of bread

   a shaped mass of baked bread that is usually sliced before eating

   matzah, matzo, matzoh, unleavened bread

   brittle flat bread eaten at Passover

   naan, nan

   leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India; usually shaped like a teardrop

   onion bread

   bread containing finely minced onions

   raisin bread

   bread containing raisins

   quick bread

   breads made with a leavening agent that permits immediate baking

   rye bread

   any of various breads made entirely or partly with rye flour

   salt-rising bread

   white wheat bread raised by a salt-tolerant bacterium in a mixture of salt and either cornmeal or potato pulp

   simnel

   a crisp bread of fine white flour

   sour bread, sourdough bread

   made with a starter of a small amount of dough in which fermentation is active

   toast

   slices of bread that have been toasted

   wafer

   thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the Eucharist)

   light bread, white bread

   bread made with finely ground and usually bleached wheat flour

   grissino

   a long slender crusty breadstick

   tea bread

   sweetened buns to be eaten with tea

   graham bread

   bread made of graham (whole wheat) flour

   flatbrod

   the thin wafer-like bread of Scandinavia

   bannock

   a flat bread made of oat or barley flour; common in New England and Scotland

   chapati, chapatti

   flat pancake-like bread cooked on a griddle

   pita, pocket bread

   usually small round bread that can open into a pocket for filling

   French loaf

   a loaf of French 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

   black bread, pumpernickel

   a dense, dark bread made from unsifted, whole-grain rye flour

   Jewish rye, Jewish rye bread

   (Judaism) bread made with rye flour; usually contains caraway seeds

   limpa

   a rye bread made with molasses or brown sugar

   Swedish rye, Swedish rye bread

   a moist aromatic yeast-raised bread made with rye flour and molasses and orange rind

   French bread

   a crusty sourdough bread often baked in long slender tapered loaves or baguettes

   Italian bread

   unsweetened yeast-raised bread made without shortening and baked in long thick loaves with tapered ends

   cornbread

   bread made primarily of cornmeal

   cinnamon toast

   buttered toast with sugar and cinnamon (and nutmeg and grated lemon peel)

   orange toast

   buttered toast with sugar and grated orange rind and a little orange juice

   Melba toast

   very thin crisp brown toast

   Brussels biscuit, rusk, twice-baked bread, zwieback

   slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp

   frankfurter bun, hotdog bun

   a long bun shaped to hold a frankfurter

   hamburger bun, hamburger roll

   a round bun shaped to hold a hamburger patty

   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

   brioche

   a light roll rich with eggs and butter and somewhat sweet

   crescent roll, croissant

   very rich flaky crescent-shaped roll

   Vienna roll, hard roll

   yeast-raised roll with a hard crust

   soft roll

   yeast-raised roll with a soft crust

   kaiser, kaiser roll

   rounded raised poppy-seed roll made of a square piece of dough by folding the corners in to the center

   Parker House roll

   yeast-raised dinner roll made by folding a disk of dough before baking

   clover-leaf roll

   yeast-raised dinner roll made by baking three small balls of dough in each cup of a muffin pan

   onion roll

   yeast-raised roll flavored with onion

   coffee roll, sweet roll

   any of numerous yeast-raised sweet rolls with our without raisins or nuts or spices or a glaze

   bagel, beigel

   (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust

   biscuit

   small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda

   saltine

   a cracker sprinkled with salt before baking

   soda cracker

   unsweetened cracker leavened slightly with soda and cream of tartar

   oyster cracker

   a small dry usually round cracker

   water biscuit

   a thin flour-and-water biscuit usually made without shortening; often served with cheese

   graham cracker

   semisweet whole-wheat cracker

   pretzel

   glazed and salted cracker typically in the shape of a loose knot

   meat loaf, meatloaf

   a baked loaf of ground meat

   type of:

   starches

   foodstuff rich in natural starch (especially potatoes, rice, bread)

   baked goods

   foods (like breads and cakes and pastries) that are cooked in an oven