What is "brown bread"

Bread \Bread\ (br[e^]d), n. [AS. bre['a]d; akin to OFries. br[=a]d, OS. br[=o]d, D. brood, G. brod, brot, Icel. brau[eth], Sw. & Dan. br["o]d. The root is probably that of E. brew. [root]93. See Brew.]

1. An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening, kneading, and baking.

   Note:

   Raised bread is made with yeast, salt, and sometimes a little butter or lard, and is mixed with warm milk or water to form the dough, which, after kneading, is given time to rise before baking.

   Cream of tartar bread is raised by the action of an alkaline carbonate or bicarbonate (as saleratus or ammonium bicarbonate) and cream of tartar (acid tartrate of potassium) or some acid.

   Unleavened bread is usually mixed with water and salt only.

   A["e]rated bread. See under A["e]rated.

   Bread and butter (fig.), means of living.

   Brown bread, Indian bread, Graham bread, Rye and Indian bread. See Brown bread, under Brown.

   Bread tree. See Breadfruit.

2. Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.

   Give us this day our daily bread.
   --Matt. vi. 11

Brown \Brown\ (broun), a. [Compar. Browner; superl. Brownest.] [OE. brun, broun, AS. br?n; akin to D. bruin, OHG. br?n, Icel. br?nn, Sw. brun, Dan. bruun, G. braun, Lith. brunas, Skr. babhru. [root]93, 253. Cf. Bruin, Beaver, Burnish, Brunette.] Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow. Cheeks brown as the oak leaves. --Longfellow. Brown Bess, the old regulation flintlock smoothbore musket, with bronzed barrel, formerly used in the British army. Brown bread

1. Dark colored bread; esp. a kind made of unbolted wheat flour, sometimes called in the United States Graham bread. ``He would mouth with a beggar though she smelt brown bread and garlic.''
   --Shak.

2. Dark colored bread made of rye meal and Indian meal, or of wheat and rye or Indian; rye and Indian bread. [U.S.]

   Brown coal, wood coal. See Lignite.

   Brown hematite or Brown iron ore (Min.), the hydrous iron oxide, limonite, which has a brown streak. See Limonite.

   Brown holland. See under Holland.

   Brown paper, dark colored paper, esp. coarse wrapping paper, made of unbleached materials.

   Brown spar (Min.), a ferruginous variety of dolomite, in part identical with ankerite.

   Brown stone. See Brownstone.

   Brown stout, a strong kind of porter or malt liquor.

   Brown study, a state of mental abstraction or serious reverie.
   --W. Irving.

a. (context idiomatic Cockney rhyming slang English) dead n. 1 bread with a brown colour as distinct from white bread, wholemeal, granary or other specific types of bread. 2 (context lang=en slang) whole-wheat bread

1. n. bread made with whole wheat flour [syn: dark bread, whole wheat bread, whole meal bread]

2. dark steamed bread made of cornmeal wheat and flour with molasses and soda and milk or water [syn: Boston brown bread]

Brown bread is a designation often given to breads made with significant amounts of whole grain flour, usually wheat, and sometimes dark-colored ingredients such as molasses or coffee. In Canada and the United Kingdom it simply refers to wholemeal or whole wheat bread, except in the Maritimes, where it implies bread made with molasses.

Whole wheat flours that contain raw wheat germ, instead of toasted germ, have higher levels of glutathione, and thus are said to result in lower loaf volumes.

Brown bread may refer to:

• Brown bread, bread which is brown, such as wholemeal bread.
• Freddie Foreman, known as "Brown Bread Fred".
• Cockney rhyming slang for dead
• Making of Bread, etc. Act 1800, also known as the Brown Bread Act.