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

• ash cake

Translations

bread baked in ashes — see also ash cake

• German: Aschenbrot n