Boston brown bread

American  

noun

1. a dark-brown steamed bread made of cornmeal and rye meal or graham or wheat flour sweetened with molasses.

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Etymology

Origin of Boston brown bread

An Americanism dating back to 1855–60

Example Sentences

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Boston brown bread

As we entered at one end of the room, a group of girls came in at the other end bringing pitchers of milk and piles of Boston brown bread.

From My Friends at Brook Farm by Sears, John Van Der Zee

For Monday there is a New England Supper—baked beans with hot Boston brown bread.

From Armour's Monthly Cook Book, Volume 2, No. 12, October 1913 A Monthly Magazine of Household Interest by McClure, Mary Jane

Althea, seeing my disappointment and disgust, declined partaking of the delicacy, but father managed to eat some of it, explaining that it was Boston brown bread.

From My Friends at Brook Farm by Sears, John Van Der Zee

Boston brown bread may be steamed in an ordinary coffee can, such as is shown in Fig.

From Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 1: Essentials of Cookery; Cereals; Bread; Hot Breads by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

It was hardly a sumptuous repast, but answered every requirement, there being canned Boston brown bread and beef tea, mixed with snow and seasoned with smoke.

From The Mountains of Oregon by Steel, William Gladstone