soda bread

noun

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

Origin of soda bread

First recorded in 1850–55

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Historical Examples of soda bread

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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