黑糖麥包(brown bread)主要用全麥麵粉黑糖蜜(molasses)或咖啡整成嘅麵包。係加拿大(除魁北克省以東嘅幾個省),英國同南非,呢種包就噉叫全麥麵包。喺美國部份嘅地方叫佢做「麥麵」相對白麵包嚟講。

愛爾蘭梳打包
黑糖麥包

愛爾蘭大饑荒嗰時,一八四八年前,黑糖麥包派畀啲窮人[1]。喺英國麥包由麥芽整成[2]。 一八四五年前後,麥芽視之為下欄貨,賣得平。不過到咗一八六五年,發現咗麥糠(bran)對健康好, 喺倫敦嘅麥芽價錢就一時間升到貴過靚麵粉[3]

  1. John Saunders, 編 (1848). The People's journal.第IV卷. London: The People's Journal Office. p. 200. 喺April 15, 2011搵到. I passed along and beheld a dense mass of wretched starving people,---men, women, and children, gathered in front of a shed, from which rations of brown bread and stirabout were served out to the poor.
  2. Percy A. Amos (1912). Processes of flour manufacture. New York, Bombay, and Calcutta: Longman, Green, and Co. p. 14. 喺April 12, 2011搵到. By allowing the germ and all but the outer, coarser layers of broad bran to mix in with the flour, we get the sweet-tasting brown meal producing the brown bread so much in favour amongst sections of the community.
  3. Edward Smith (1865). Practical dietary for families, schools, and the laboring classes. London: Walton and Maberly. p. 36. 喺April 15, 2011搵到.