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fancy bread
[fancy n. and a. C. 1.]
Bread not of the ordinary texture, size, and weight of the standard ‘household’ and ‘cottage’ loaves.
1801Times 9 Mar., Germans, who make what they call French or fancy bread, particularly to please the appetites of foreigners. 1841Guide to Trade, Baker 65 Fancy bread, ginger-bread, buns, rolls, muffins and crumpets, etc. 1853Fraser's Mag. June. XLVII. 680/2 A large assortment of fancy breads. 1904Westm. Gaz. 23 Aug. 4/1 Fancy bread is for the future to be defined as that which is ‘made up into separate rolls, twists, or other shapes, each of which is less than one pound in weight’. 1908J. Kirkland Mod. Baker II. xxvii. 165 The greatest diversity of opinion prevails amongst bakers as to what is fancy bread. The rough interpretation of the term as recognized by the Bread Laws is: Bread that cannot readily be mistaken for plain bread. The distinguishing mark..is some difference in shape or glaze: but the baker..makes it include all sorts which involve more labour in manufacture, or entail greater cost for materials. |