Meanings
nounash bread (usually uncountable, plural ash breads)
plural ash breads
- uncountableusuallyBread (sometimes specifically cornbread) baked in hot ashes.
[…] 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.
1998, Anne Calcagno, Italy: true stories of life on the road, page 378
Origin
Translations
German Aschenbrot
- Aschenbrotbread baked in ashes — see also ash cake
Polish placek pieczony w popiele
- placek pieczony w popielebread baked in ashes — see also ash cake
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