salt-rising bread

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

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Questions about salt-rising bread

What does salt-rising bread mean?

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

Is salt-rising bread a common word?

salt-rising bread is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.