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sourdough bread

n. made with a starter of a small amount of dough in which fermentation is active [syn: sour bread]

Usage examples of "sourdough bread".

Plays duplicate bridge, and I swear to god, he bakes sourdough bread.

He was making sourdough bread when I came in and he had a pot of beans setting in the outer coals.

With this he snapped his fingers, and the cooks brought out the sourdough bread, the beans and onions, the johnnycake and the elk meat.

I turned down the heat, buttered twelve pieces of sourdough bread, and put them on the grill.

We ate beans, beef, and sourdough bread, and we had molasses for sweetening.

He was quite adept at reading lips, but I'm not at all sure how much he understood with our lips that chewed on fresh sourdough bread while speaking.

All diners had some shrimp, spinach salad, sourdough bread and a baked potato.

The geography of San Francisco is too beautiful to allow seaminess to get much of a foothold, and so along with these barkers there were many tourists afoot, tourists carrying loaves of sourdough bread and Ghirardelli chocolates.