(idea) by ModernAngel Sat Dec 18 1999 at 1:47:50
"Black bread". A rye bread variant, with molasses. German "Pumpernickel" translates roughly to "goblin fart".

Did Westphalia really have peasants as recently as 1913?
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(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 2:21:57

Pump"er*nick`el (?), n. [G.]

A sort of bread, made of unbolted rye, which forms the chief food of the Westphalian peasants. It is acid but nourishing.

 

© Webster 1913.

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