What is "sour bread"

Usage examples of "sour bread".

Lemon and a few sprigs of herbs lay on a small plate next to a stack of sour bread toast and a bowl of lightly steaming drawn butter.

They ate in front of the fire, sour bread and cheese, a cold joint of mutton and a black bottle of Constantia wine, and Jan Cheroot hovered over Jordan, scolding him fondly for his appetite and recharging his glass when it was barely a quarter empty.

He had a hard, bitter mouth which had eaten sour bread for so long that it had forgotten the taste of sweetness, but his eyes were couched in fine lines of supplication, as if he had spent years looking skyward and begging the sun not to blind him.

Raven had found leaves for a tart but pleasant tea, and had gathered roots earlier in the day, as they rode, for a sour bread while Ilya had located familiar roots along the bank of the stream that he peeled and cooked in the coals.

The women carried sour bread like armloads of wood and stacked the golden loaves on a table.

So was the sour bread toast and the scrambled eggs-shell eggs, if he was a judge.

Lynde says that when a man has to eat sour bread two weeks out of three his theology is bound to get a kink in it somewhere.