Pumpernickel (1807)

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A TOUR THROUGH HOLLAND ALONG THE RIGHT AND LEFT BANKS OF THE RHINE,
TO THE SOUTH OF GERMANY, IN THE SUMMER OF 1806
by John Carr
London: Richard Phillips
1807

   OED has 1756, then 1839 for "pumpernickel," stating "origin uncertain."

Pg. 23:  ...gave us a true Dutch dinner, consisting of nearly fifteen different sorts of fish, exquisitely dressed, and served up with vegetables of various kinds.  In Holland, in preparing the fish for the kettle, the head, and fins, and tail, are generally cut off.

Pg. 35:  Even the Spanish proverb, "thought close, looks loose," is not boserved in this city.

Pg. 52:  The Dutch potatoes are small and uncommonly good; I think they are, if possible, superior to those of Ireland.

Pg. 347:  My driver stopped to give his horses some wretched hard bread, used by the peasants in Westphalia, composed of straw and oats, called _bonpournikel_ from the following circumstance.  Many years since a Frenchman, travelling in this country, called for bread for himself, and upon this sort being presented, he exclaimed, _C'est bon pour Nickel_ (the name of his horse); upon which the old woman who had brought it in ran about the village in a great pet relating the story.