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List of quick breads

This is a list of quick breads. Quick bread is a North American term for any bread leavened with some leavening agents other than yeast or eggs. Preparing a quick bread generally involves two mixing bowls. One contains all dry ingredients and one contains all wet ingredients. In some variations, the dry ingredients are in a bowl and the wet ingredients are heated sauces in a saucepan off-heat and cooled.

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This is a list of quick breads. Quick bread is a North American term for any bread leavened with some leavening agents other than yeast or eggs. Preparing a quick bread generally involves two mixing bowls. One contains all dry ingredients (including chemical leavening agents or agent) and one contains all wet ingredients (possibly including liquid ingredients that are slightly acidic in order to initiate the leavening process). In some variations, the dry ingredients are in a bowl and the wet ingredients are heated sauces in a saucepan off-heat and cooled.

Quick breads

American (left) and British (right) biscuits. The American version is a type of quick bread. source ↗
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  • Balep korkun – Tibetan flatbread – consumed mainly in central Tibet
  • Banana bread – Cake made from mashed bananas
  • Bannock – Type of flat quick bread – British and Irish variety of flat quick bread or any large, round article baked or cooked from grain
  • Bannock – Type of bread – Indigenous American bread
  • Beaten biscuit – Type of biscuit
  • Beer bread – Bread baked with beer in the dough
  • Biscuit – Type of bread
  • Boortsog – a traditional fried dough food found in the cuisines of Central Asia, Idel-Ural, and Mongolia
  • Brown bread – Whole grain bread
  • Bun – Bread-based food
  • Bush bread – Seedcakes baked by Aboriginal Australians
  • Carrot bread – Bread featuring carrots
  • Cornbread – American bread made with cornmeal
  • Damper – Australian campfire bread
  • Egg waffle – spherical egg waffle popular in Hong Kong and Macao1
  • Farl – Scottish and Irish three-cornered flatbreads and cakes – any of various quadrant-shaped flatbreads and cakes, traditionally made by cutting a round into four pieces
  • Frybread – Variety of flatbread
  • Griddle scone – Baked goodsPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
  • Hushpuppy – Deep-fried savory food made from cornmeal batter
  • Lángos – Hungarian deep-fried flatbread made of a dough with flour, yeast, salt and water
  • Mantecadas – Spongy sweet bread originating in SpainPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets – spongy pastry from Spain similar to a muffin, but flatter
  • Muffin – Part-raised flatbread or quickbread
  • Pain d'épices – French quick bread – French cake or quick bread
  • Pancake – Thin round cake made of eggs, milk, and flour
  • Proja – Type of cornbread – Balkan quick bread
  • Puftaloon – Baked goodsPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets – Australian puffed scone
  • Pumpkin bread – Type of moist quick bread made with pumpkin
  • Scone – Baked goods
  • Shortcake – Dessert with a crumbly scone-like texture, or a British biscuit, or a Chinese baked good
  • Soda bread – variety of quick bread traditionally made in a variety of cuisines in which sodium bicarbonate (otherwise known as baking soda) is used as a leavening agent instead of the more common yeast
  • Sopaipilla – Fried pastry traditional in Spain, Latin America, and the southwestern United States
  • Touton – Newfoundland pancake
  • Waffle – Batter or dough-based food cooked between two patterned, shaped plates
  • Zucchini bread
  • Zucchini slice, a quickbread-like dish popular in Australia2
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