This is a list of American breads.
Bread is a
staple food prepared from a
dough of
flour and
water, usually by
baking. Throughout
recorded history it has been popular around the world and is one of humanity's oldest foods, having been of importance since the dawn of
agriculture.
This list includes breads that originated in the
United States.
Beaten biscuit –
Southern food from the United States, dating from the 19th century. They differ from regular American soft-dough
biscuits in that they are more like
hardtack. In
New England they are called "sea biscuits", as they were staples aboard whaling ships.[4]
Biscuit – in the United States and parts of
Canada, and widely used in popular
American English, is a small
bread with a firm browned crust and a soft interior.
San Francisco sourdough - a specialty form of French bread with a crispy brown crust and a distinctly "sour" taste, which derives from the fructilactobacillus sanfranciscensis bacteria in the fermented sourdough starter. French bakers are suspected to have introduced sourdough bread to the San Francisco area during the California Gold Rush in the 1850s [9]
^Adams, Marcia (1997). New recipes from quilt country: more food & folkways from the Amish & Mennonites. New York, N.Y: Clarkson Potter Publishers. p. 50.
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^Ames, Mary Ellis (1933). "1 - Breads". Balanced Recipes. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Pillsbury Flour Mills Company. p. 3.