Meaning of kissing-crust | Babel Free

Definitions

The portion of the upper crust of a loaf which has touched another loaf in baking.

Examples

“how he would recommend this slice of white bread, or that piece of kissing crust, to a tender juvenile, advising them all to have a care of cracking their teeth”

“he cuts a massy fragment from the rich curly kissing-crust, that hangs like a fretted cornice from the upper half of the loaf[…]”

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