ash bread

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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.

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