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soda bread

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noun
an Irish quick bread leavened with baking soda, usually made with buttermilk.
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Origin of soda bread

First recorded in 1850–55

Words nearby soda bread

Socred, sod, soda, soda ash, soda biscuit, soda bread, soda cracker, soda fountain, soda jerk, soda lake, soda lime
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How to use soda bread in a sentence

  • A large home-baked loaf of soda bread on a wooden platter stood at one end of the table, and near it a sponge-cake.

    Hyacinth|George A. Birmingham

  • She is carefully examining some cakes of soda bread, and has a bucket beside her into which she throws the rejected pieces.

    The Drone|Rutherford Mayne

  • This water is medicinal, but not disagreeable to the taste: the damper made with it was very light, and tasted like soda-bread.

    Explorations in Australia, The Journals of John McDouall Stuart|John McDouall Stuart

British Dictionary definitions for soda bread

soda bread
noun
a type of bread leavened with sodium bicarbonate combined with milk and cream of tartar
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