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Anadama

Anadama is the abbreviation of Anadama bread.

Meaning of Anadama bread

Noun

Anadama bread (uncountable)

  1. A traditional yeast bread of New England, made with wheat flour, cornmeal, molasses and sometimes rye flour.
    • An amusing story of the origin of Anadama Bread relates—The name Anadama comes from a New England fisherman whose lazy wife always served him corn meal mush and molasses for dinner ... Tired of it, he mixed it with flour and yeast and baked it as bread, saying: "Anna damn her."1956, Betty Crocker, General Mills, Inc., Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book, page 109

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Questions about Anadama

What is Anadama the abbreviation of?
Anadama is the abbreviation of Anadama bread.

Words near Anadama in the dictionary

  1. anacusis
  2. anacyclamide
  3. anacyclamides
  4. anacyclic
  5. anacyclosis
  6. Anadama
  7. Anadama bread
  8. Anadarko
  9. anadem
  10. anadems
  11. anadenia

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