pot-bread, noun

Origin:
Translation of Afrikaans potbrood.
Bread baked in a closed cast-iron pot which is either buried in hot embers or placed over a fire; potbrood. Also attributive.
[1883 E.L. Price Letter. 25 JuneJonas, our new cook, has never been on a journey before, and therefore does not understand the pot-loaf as we call it, wh. we bake on the road when our home bread has come to an end.]
1984 Cape Times 27 Oct.Detectives heard about another labourer in the area who regularly brought potbread to work. A piece of potbread was one of the clues found at the scene of the killing.
1986 Cape Times 16 Jan. 7Worcester Farm Museum..Pot bread baking, wheat milling in a water mill, coffee bean roasting, thong-curing [etc.].
1986 M. Van Wyk Cooking the S. Afr. Way 96Potbread (Potbrood)...Place dough in pot and leave to rise to twice its original size. Place pot in ash of braai fire, heaping coals up around it. Bake, covered, for 45 minutes-1 hour. Heap coals on lid for last 15 minutes.
1989 H. Goosen in S. Afr. Panorama Feb. 17Scrumptious rib of mutton with pot-bread and home-brewed coffee.
1990 M.M. Hacksley (tr. of E. Van Heerden) in Lynx 189Girlie broke some pot-bread for their supper and held out the tin of dripping for him to wipe his bread across it.
1991 Farmer’s Weekly 25 Jan. 53A heavy, flat-bottomed pot is ideal for cooking the most delicious potbread — either indoors in the oven or outdoors on smouldering coals.
Bread baked in a closed cast-iron pot which is either buried in hot embers or placed over a fire; potbrood. Also attributive.
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post-Soweto, adjectiveadj.potbrood, nounn.
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