Anadama bread

Meaning

Noun

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

Origin

• Unknown. Anadama bread has been an etymological puzzle for a long time. Dare cites Dialect Notes (1915), and states "etymology unknown"; John Mariani's Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink also states that the term dates in print from 1915. The often-given etymology, "Anna, damn her!", is certainly apocryphal.