ash bread

English

Etymology

ash +‎ bread

Noun

ash bread (usually uncountable, plural ash breads)

  1. 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.

Coordinate terms

Translations
bread baked in ashes — See also translations at ash cake
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