ash bread
English
Etymology
ash + bread
Noun
ash bread (usually uncountable, plural ash breads)
- Bread (sometimes specifically cornbread) baked in hot ashes.
- 1998, Anne Calcagno, Italy: true stories of life on the road, page 378:
- […] either lime water or other sodium solutions, which is exactly what Native Americans did in making hominy or ash breads wherever maize was their mainstay.
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Coordinate terms
- ash cake
Translations
bread baked in ashes — See also translations at ash cake
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