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Meaning of Logan bread | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A dense, nutritious bread for backpacking made with honey, molasses, eggs, wholewheat flour, and assorted dried fruit and nuts.
    uncountable
  2. Alternative letter-case form of Logan bread.
    alt-of, uncountable

Examples

“I managed to get a kind of stew made from dried beef-noodle soup, MPF, and potato granules, and we ate that with Logan bread and instant hot chocolate, and were warm and satisfied.”
“This complicated system would have been absurd normally; but we watched each other distrustfully, and when we had to cut a piece of Logan bread or pour cereal out of a bag, we did so with painstaking care.”
“For the three south face routes, Everett had worked out a 700–man-day food list. To begin with, there were forty loaves of Logan bread—a most popular item—baked in advance.”
“Laura Gardner—the wife of J.S. “Smitty” Gardner, Hans’ doctor—spent weeks baking dozens of loaves of what was called Logan bread, a heavy, nourishing bread suitable for an easy breakfast meal.”
“Moreover, three innovations introduced by the Mount Logan expedition—the single-pole Logan tent, willow wands for route marking, and nutritious Logan bread—were adopted by other expeditions in decades to follow.”
“Kevin and I spent hours in my mom’s kitchen baking Logan bread and cutting it into one-man/one-day rations and slathering it with butter.”
“My eventual rations included pasta and soups which could be prepared simply by adding boiling water, spices to give strong flavour, oatflakes, salami, beef jerky, salmon strips (called ‘squaw candy’), logan bread, dried fruits, trail-mix, chocolate, sweets, coffee and tea.”
“The foods that did retain their appeal were what I call “real food.” Cold cereal always tasted good for breakfast. Mildly sweet logan bread for lunch never palled.”
“While everybody else on the mountain was eating gorp and logan bread, we dined on duck and venison.”
“Lunch was usually logan bread, a dense, slightly sweet loaf loaded with nutrition from whole grams, eggs, nuts, and fruits. […] I shipped as much food, portioned and packaged, to the villages along my route as I could ahead of time, including such items as cocoa mix, tea, trail mix, rice, the dry ingredients for logan bread, and dog food. Other items, such as steak, sausage, cheese, margarine, and the liquid ingredients for logan bread, I purchased along the way. Before leaving home I baked enough logan bread to last through training and the early part of the expedition.”

CEFR level

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

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