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{{Short description|Bread flavored with cracklings}}

{{Multiple issues|unreferenced = June 2012|original research = June 2012}}

{{Infobox prepared food

| name = Crackling bread

| image = Pompe aux grattons =unbroken.jpg

| caption = Pompe aux grattons, a type of crackling bread =from central France

| alternate_name = Gratons

| country = [[United States]], [[France]]

| region = [[Southern United States]], [[Bourbonnais]]

| creator =
| course =

| type = [[Bread]]

| course =

| served =

| type = [[Bread]]

| main_ingredient = [[Cornmeal]], or [[porkflour]], rind[[cracklings]]s

| served =

| variations =

| main_ingredient = [[Cornmeal]], [[pork rind]]s

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Bread flavored with [[cracklings]] is found in several cuisines:

'''Crackling bread''' is a [[Cuisine of the Southern United States|dish from the Southern United States]] which mainly consists of cracklings and a type of bread, usually containing [[cornmeal]]. Cracklings are extremely similar to [[pork rind]]s and [[Chicharrón|chicharrones]], a dish made of fried pork rinds.

* '''Crackling bread''', in the [[cuisine of the Southern United States]] is a [[cornbread]] incorporating cracklings.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes|title=Recipes|website=Food Network}}</ref>

==Use in American literature==

* '''''Pompe aux grattons''''' or '''''brioche aux griaudes''''', in the [[French cuisine|cuisine of central France]], is a bread, [[tart]], or [[brioche]] incorporating cracklings. It is a specialty of the [[Allier|Bourbonnais]].<ref>François-Régis Gaudry, ''Let's Eat France'', {{isbn|1579658768}}, p. 382</ref>

Crackling bread is a meal featured in the book [[To Kill a Mockingbird]] by Harper Lee. It is the narrator's, Scout, favorite snack. It is cooked for her by her family chef Calpurnia when she has behaved well. The first time it appears is when Scout goes to school for the first time. "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 loved crackling bread." Scout's home cook Calpurnia had been very tough on her, and to make it up, she sweet-talks her and makes her crackling bread.

* ''Pan de [[chicharrones]]'', in the [[cuisine of Argentina]] and the [[cuisine of Uruguay]], is a wheat flour bread incorporating beef cracklings and [[tallow]].

==Use inIn American literature==

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