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{{Short description|Bread flavored with cracklings}}

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{{Infobox prepared food

| name = Crackling bread

| image = Pompe aux grattons =unbroken.jpg

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

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

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

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| 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 consists of [[Pork rind|cracklings]] baked into a type of [[cornbread]].<ref>http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/emeril-lagasse/cracklin-bread-recipe.html</ref>

* '''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 mentioned in the novel ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]''. It is the narrator's, Scout's, favorite snack. Calpurnia, 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>

* ''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 mentioned in the novel ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]''. It is the narrator's, Scout's, favorite snack. Calpurnia, 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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