brown bread

any bread made of flour darker in color than bolted wheat flour, especially graham or whole wheat bread.

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Zeb recovered at once when she offered him a generous slice of brown-bread, but Dan was too anxious about his father to eat.
The Puritan Twins|Lucy Fitch Perkins
Here the brown-bread kettle boiled over, creating a diversion; and Mirandy gladly rose to set it further back.
Meadow Grass|Alice Brown
I love every bean that was ever baked in Boston; every cod-fish-ball ever fried; and every brown-bread loaf ever baked there.
Caper-Sauce|Fanny Fern
The Beebes had gone—as most of East Wellmouth had gone—to the baked beans and brown-bread supper and sociable at the church.
Galusha the Magnificent|Joseph C. Lincoln

Let the mixture simmer five minutes, then serve hot on wheat bread or brown-bread toast, well browned and buttered.
A Busy Year at the Old Squire's|Charles Asbury Stephens