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{{Short description|Bread flavored with cracklings}}

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{{Infobox prepared food

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| name = Crackling bread

{{original research|date=June 2012}}

| 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]]

| served =

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

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

{{Infobox prepared food

| name = Crackling bread

| image =

| caption =

| alternate_name = Gratons

| country = [[United States]]

| region = [[Southern United States]]

| creator =

| course =

| type = [[Bread]]

| served =

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

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* '''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>

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

* '''''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>

* ''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==

Crackling bread is a meal featuredmentioned in the booknovel ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]] by [[Harper Lee]]''. It is the narrator's, Scout's, favorite snack. CalperniaCalpurnia, the family's cook, prepared it for Scout after her first day at school. "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." Calpurnia and Scout had had an argument during lunch and to try to repair the bond between them she made crackling bread.<ref>"To Kill a Mockingbird", Harper Lee, Chapter 3</ref>

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