Anadama Bread

Name: Anadama Bread
Yield: 1 loaf
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon salt; ½ cup canned cream-style corn; ¼ cup molasses; 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled to room temperature; ½ cup warm water; ¼ teaspoon sugar; 3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour; ½ cup stone-ground yellow cornmeal; 1 package active dry yeast

Preparation info

1
loaf

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The New Basics Cookbook

By Sheila Lukins and Julee Rosso

Published 1989

About

Legend has it (according to one of many versions) that this bread was named by a disgruntled husband who shouted about his wife, “Anna, damn her.” Maybe her version wasn’t as good as ours is—nicely moistened with cream-style corn.

Ingredients

1 package active dry yeast
½ cup warm water
¼ teaspoon su

Vegetarian
Bread

Method

Combine the yeast, warm water, and sugar in a small bowl and set aside until the yeast starts foaming, 5 to 10 minutes.
Stir the flour, cornmeal, and salt together in another bowl.
In a third bowl, stir the corn, molasses, and melted butter together.
Add the yeast and corn mixtures to the flour, and stir until the mixture forms a mass. Turn