Boston brown bread

Boston brown bread
noun
dark steamed bread made of cornmeal wheat and flour with molasses and soda and milk or water
Syn: ↑brown bread
Hypernyms: ↑bread, ↑breadstuff, ↑staff of life

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noun
Usage: usually capitalized 1st B

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a dark-brown steamed bread made of cornmeal and rye meal or graham or wheat flour sweetened with molasses.
[1855-60, Amer.]

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Boston brown bread,
a very dark, steamed bread containing corn meal, flour (usually both wheat and rye), molasses, soda, and water or milk, commonly baked in cylindrical loaves.

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