Definition of "breadstuff" [bread•stuff]

• Bread in any form or shape. (noun)
• Flour, meal, or grain used in the baking of bread. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "In most cases the runaway breadstuff is simpler than a gingerbread man: it’s a “thick, fat pancake” in the earliest printed version (from Germany in 1854), a “wee bunnock” in an early Scottish version, a johnny-cake in a tale from the American South."
• "Page 49 steered for St. Catharines to obtain Farina, a kind of breadstuff used mostly by the slaves."
• "Hot cross buns are a festive food, rather than a common or garden breadstuff, and they deserve to be treated as such."