anadama bread

anadama bread
/an'euh dam"euh/
a yeast-raised bread having corn meal and molasses among its ingredients: a traditional food of colonial America.
[1910-15; orig. 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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