#anadamabread

[thegiftofpie]

Tweaked an Anadama bread recipe so I’m pretty happy with the results. This makes a wonderful pair of loaves with hints of molasses and the crunch of cornmeal. Try a slice toasted and slathered with butter and marmalade and cup of your favourite tea or coffee. You can’t go wrong. This is a great bread to have on a winter’s night. #bread #anadamabread https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn-pS2zPE_8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[margotdreamsofbaking]

Who else has heard of Anadama bread? I’m baking a batch of Boston baked beans and had to bake some of this bread to go with it! This loaf has some cornmeal and molasses in it to give it its distinctive flavour and texture. The story goes that a Boston area fisherman was tired of the molasses porridge so one day he threw in some flour and yeast and put put it in the oven to bake. While it baked, he sat muttering « Anna damn her!» (picture it being said in a Boston accent) and the name was born. Whether the story is true or not, this bread is delicious! #anadamabread #breadbaking #freshbakedbread #breadstagram (at Barrie, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/COGjk8jsukI/?igshid=q626d2g0ljn4

[thisbirdsabsurd]

Delicious snow day activity. My grandmothers recipe, it gives you ingredients and then, “proceed as you would with white bread”, so you better know your bread game. 😜#homemadebread #snowday #anadamabread #grandmothersrecipe #homemade https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu12ZSIlJ9M/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=15fvi6hbxkk1p

[brokenteepee]

The Anadama Bread baked beautifully. . . #baking #bread #homemadebread #anadamabread #thebreadbakersapprentice #peterreinhart #foodblogger #food #yumyum (at Superior, Montana)

[gastrogranny]

Ettél már mennyei Anadama kenyeret? videó recept: https://youtu.be/ToufYk6S9Ss #anadamakenyér #kenyér #anadama #anadamabread #bread #brot #anadamabrot #gastrogranny #gastrogrannyblog #homemade #makeyourdishescometrue #instafood #foodstagram #mutimiteszel #mutimitfozol #foodie #mutimitsutsz

[zackbowen]

The #chowder from @unionportland and #chef @chefjoshbmaine, with #anadamabread, was superb! Another stop along the @mainefoodforthought tour. (at UNION Restaurant)

[herebevegans]

Anadama Bread

When Jake and I met, neither one of us was any good at cooking. We were pretty much limited to peanut butter sandwiches, disastrously steamed veggies, and Annie's mac and cheese from the purple box. To be fair, we were in high school at the time. And even though we were terrible, we were still really enthusiastic about making food. We made crazy sandwiches and crunchy vegetable soup and we loved it. By far the best thing that we learned how to make an adequate version of was anadama bread.

Our anadama recipe has improved considerably since when we were teenagers, and it has remained our favorite bread to make. These days when we bake it, it reminds us of New England and of home and of our very nice family members eating our bread and telling us it was every bit as good as we thought it was.

Anadama is excellent as toast or sandwich bread and it’s one of the greatest peanut butter vehicles of all time.

anadama bread (yields one loaf)

1/2 cup stone-ground cornmeal

1 cup unsweetened alternative milk (we usually do oat or almond)

2 tablespoons vegan butter, plus 1 melted teaspoon for brushing on top

3 to 3 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

2 teaspoons salt

1 envelope - or 2 1/4 tsp - instant yeast

1/3 cup lukewarm warm water

5 tablespoons dark molasses

In a small sauce pan, heat the milk and 2 tablespoons butter until almost at a simmer. Whisk in the cornmeal and remove from heat.

Either by hand, or using the hook attachment on a standing mixer, combine the flour, salt and cornmeal mush.

Whisk the yeast into the lukewarm water. Stir in the molasses.

Add the yeast/molasses to the flour mixture. If you’re using a standing mixer, start at a low speed until the dough comes together and then mix on medium for about 10 minutes. Stop the machine and remove the dough from the hook and reposition it one or two times, or as needed. If you are working with your hands, kneed vigorously on a lightly floured surface for 5 minutes.

Shape the dough into a smooth ball. Oil a bowl and place the bread into the bowl smooth-side-down and then flip it over. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap or a damp cloth. Allow to rise in a warm place for 60 to 90 minutes. 

In the summer, you can let your dough rise just about anywhere, but in the winter you may have to be more creative. Try laying some folded newspaper on top of a radiator and setting your bowl of dough on that. If you’d like to use your oven as a warm place for your bread to rise, simply let it heat up to 200 degrees and then turn it off and wait 10 minutes.

Once your dough has risen, kneed it slightly and shape it into a loaf. You’ll want to do a bread-shaping move called “winding the clock.” Set your bread on the counter, start at one edge and roll it up into a bit of a loaf-shaped coil. Then put that coiled dough log into a greased bread pan and press it down to roughly fill the space. Re-cover and let it rise while you boil water and pre-heat the oven. 

Place a bread pan containing about 2 cups of boiled water on a rack in the lowest position in the oven.

Melt about a teaspoon of butter and brush it over the loaf. Sprinkle a dusting of cornmeal on top if you wish.

Bake at 350 for 50 mins.

We usually (gently) dump the bread out of the pan and onto a wire rack right away.

Recipe adapted from Baking Illustrated

[thegiftofpie]

Tonight’s dinner went very traditional New England with, appropriately enough, New England fish chowder, Anadama bread, Boston cream pie, and a fantastic Italian Falerno white wine, a variety once known as one of the great wines of the Roman Empire. #tonightsdinner #fishchowder #anadamabread https://www.instagram.com/p/CZGJf12Marv/?utm_medium=tumblr

[thegiftofpie]

Going real old school New England, specifically from the Cape Ann area of Massachusetts (Gloucester & Rockport) to accompany tonight’s dinner: Anadama bread. #bread #breadmaking #anadamabread #capeann #newengland https://www.instagram.com/p/CZFaDopv3Q4/?utm_medium=tumblr