Kissingcrust

Kissingcrust Kiss"ing*crust`, n. (Cookery) The portion of the upper crust of a loaf which has touched another loaf in baking. --Lamb. [1913 Webster]

A massy fragment from the rich kissingcrust that hangs like a fretted cornice from the upper half of the loaf. --W. Howitt. [1913 Webster]