Toddy Bread

Someone asked me yesterday whether we ate bread in the mission (when I was a boy). Well yes, but not bread as we know it. We ate toddy bread. There is a reference to this in the book Bread Matters by Andrew Whitley: "In the East Indies, bread was raised and baked by a liquor called toddy which was the sap of palm or wild date trees. Apparently within two hours of being tapped, the sap fermented spontaneously into an intoxicating liquor, which was fit to bake with."