DCHP-3

shanty loaf

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a kind of unleavened bread made of coarse flour and resembling hardtack, used in earlier days in the bush cabins and camps.

Quotations

1845
The sugar-maker's bark-covered hut contains his bedding and provisions, consisting of little save the huge round loaf of bread, known as the "shanty loaf"--his beverage or substitute for tea is made of the leaves of wintergreen, or the hemlock boughs which grow beside him, and his sweetening being handy bye, he wants nothing more.