brown-bread

In 1872 Horace Greeley was running against US Grant and was smeared as a vegetarian and a brown-bread eater.

Matthew Yglesias » Historical Sex Scandals 2010

My most treasured family recipe is for brown-bread ice cream, something that my mother developed.

Lela Rose 2011

The brown-bread sandwiches are salmon; the grain are tongue.

The Black Madonna Davis Bunn 2010

A puritan may go to his brown-bread crust with as gross an appetite as ever an alderman to his turtle.

Walden 2004

Beat the soda into the molasses until it foams; add sour milk, mix all together and pour into a tin pail which has been well greased, if you have no brown-bread steamer.

Things Mother Used to Make Lydia Maria Gurney

We rejoice in the progress of English manufactures, which extracts every force from each ounce of coal, and pounds or weaves the English iron into nearly everything for human use except boots and brown-bread

Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z Various

There were brown-bread and baked beans and a custard pie; it was the supper that Adoniram loved on a Saturday night.

Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels

Aunt Pen glanced toward her niece with the comfortable conviction that her appearance was highly creditable; and her dismay can be imagined, when she beheld that young lady placidly devouring a great cup of brown-bread and milk before the eyes of the assembled multitude.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various

He praised everything at table, -- the smoking brown-bread, the baked beans steaming from the oven, where they had been quietly simmering during the morning walk, and the Indian pudding, with its gelatinous softness, matured by long and patient brooding in the motherly old oven.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 Various

Janet, spying her, with her bundle and her umbrella, standing and casting troubled, wistful glances at the door, ran over and brought her to where the women and children were drinking coffee from great cups, and eating rolls of brown-bread and butter.

Harper's Young People, January 13, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various