soda bread

noun

: a quick bread made especially with buttermilk and leavened with baking soda

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Cooling nearby were a few loaves of speckled soda bread baked by Davies. Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 21 July 2025 Each morning, overnight guests are treated to a three-course breakfast featuring fruit, yogurt, Irish soda bread, and more. Lydia Mansel, Southern Living, 18 July 2025 The palate offers flavors of plum pudding, spiced pear, and buttered soda bread. Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025 What: This two-day event features Irish music and dances, a children's festival, a genealogy expert, lectures on Irish history and authentic Irish dishes, such as Guinness stew, corned beef sandwiches, homemade scones, soda bread and more. Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for soda bread

Word History

First Known Use

1850, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of soda bread was in 1850

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“Soda bread.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/soda%20bread. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.

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