HomeServicesBlogDictionariesContactSpanish Course
← Back to search

Meaning of Anadama bread | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A traditional yeast bread of New England, made with wheat flour, cornmeal, molasses and sometimes rye flour.

uncountable

Examples

“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."”
“As a compromise, I purchased cornmeal at the PX and made anadama bread.”
“Made some anadama bread yesterday. It's over on the counter.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

Learn this word in context

See Anadama bread used in real conversations inside our free language course.

Start Free Course