The edge of a loaf of bread where it has been pulled apart from another loaf baked alongside it.
my siblings and I would fight over the kissing crust
Example sentencesExamples
- It is the rich kissing-crust that hangs like a fretted cornice from the upper-half of the loaf.
- The bread is baked in the traditional shapes like the old style white quarter loaf which can be broken in two, to leave a kissing crust.
- Curly bits of crust, known as "kissing crusts", were broken off the cooling bread and eaten by children.
- We called these the kissing crusts and loved the taste of them when the bread was new.
- Hungry children who go home from the baker's know best what it is, by the bits they filch from that part denominated the 'kissing crust'.