Talk:bread

What's the name of the piece of bread at the ends of the loaf that's all crust. I feel like there's a one syllable word for them, but I can't remember what it is…

It's a topper (at least, that's what I have always known it as) SemperBlotto 15:51, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The answer I found elsewhere is heel. It sounds right to me.

Heel is certainly all I've ever heard. Could this be a UK/US difference?

I can't find topper (for this meaning) in any dictionary. It is probably local (Bristolian). SemperBlotto 16:39, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

A single Middle English (dictionary) citation, moved from the entry where it had been sorted erroneously according to the 1962 date under the English section:

• 1962 (quoting 1381 text), Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, page 1242:

  dorrẹ̅, dōrī adj. & n. […] cook. glazed with a yellow substance; pome(s ~, sopes ~. […] 1381 Pegge Cook. Recipes p. 114: For to make Soupys dorry. Nym onyons […] Nym wyn […] toste wyte bred and do yt in dischis, and god Almande mylk.

Figurative. the most minimal meal possible; a meal as once was given to prisoners. --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:26, 20 April 2021 (UTC)Reply