anadama bread

[ an-uh-dam-uh-bred ]

noun
  1. a yeast-raised bread having cornmeal and molasses among its ingredients: a traditional food of colonial America.

Origin of anadama bread

1
First recorded in 1910–15; origin obscure; the various anecdotes ascribing it to a permutation of “Anna damn her” or “Anna's damn bread” are purely folk etymologies

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