soda bread

noun

soda bread

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

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First recorded in 1850–55

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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.

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

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

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