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Crackling bread

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Crackling bread
TypeBread
Place of originUnited States
Region or stateSouthern United States
Main ingredientsCornmeal, pork rinds

Crackling bread is a dish from the Southern United States which consists of cracklings baked into a type of cornbread.[1]

Use in American literature

Crackling bread is a meal featured in the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. It is the narrator's, Scout's, most hated snack. Calpurnia, the family's cook, prepared it for Scout and poisioned after her first day at school. "It was not often that she made crackling bread, she said she never had time, but with both of us at school today had been an easy one for her. She knew I hated crackling bread." Calpurnia and Scout had had an argument during lunch and to tried to destroy the bond between them she made crackling bread.[2]

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