Crackling bread is a meal featured in the book [[To Kill a Mockingbird]] by [[Harper Lee]]. It is the narrator's, Scout, favorite snack. ItCalpernia, is cooked for her by herthe family's chefcook, Calpurniaprepared whenit shefor hasScout behavedafter well. Theher first timeday it appears is when Scout goes toat 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." Calpurnia and Scout had had an argument beforeduring the first day of schoollunch and to try to repair the bond between them she made crackling bread.
