bran-bread

Of bread, the fifteenth century had several descriptions in use: pain-main or bread of very fine flour, wheat-bread, barley-meal bread, bran-bread, bean-bread, pease-bread, oat-bread or oat-cakes, hard-bread, and unleavened bread.

Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine 2006

He evidently prefers roast-beef and brown-stout to bran-bread and cold water, and has gone so far as to sing the praises of pale-ale.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Various

Ef you're in want o 'bran-bread at any time, let me know, an' I'm your man, -- Rink by name, an 'Rink by natur'.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

A slouch-hat, crowning hollow eyes and haggard beard, filled him with joy: it marked a bran-bread man and a brother.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

"Let me make the bran-bread of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws."

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

On this plantation the chief article of food for the slaves was bran-bread, although the master's children were kind and often slipped them out meat or other food.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Indiana Narratives Work Projects Administration

Wasted, yet daily renewed, enduring, yet murmuring not, he hurled defiance at Fat, scoffed at the vain rage of Jupiter Pinguis, and proffered to the world below a new life in his fiery gift of stale bran-bread.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

Then we sat down to tiffin -- "bull-mate an 'bran-bread," Mulvaney called it -- by the side of the river, and took pot shots at the crocodiles in the intervals of cutting up the food with our only pocket-knife.

Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

Let him have either bran-bread or Robinson's Patent Groats, or Robinson's Pure Scotch

Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children Pye Henry Chavasse 1844

“E’en as you like the thoughts of dining on bran-bread and milk-porridge — an extremity which you trust never to be reduced to.

Peveril of the Peak 1822