logan bread
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.91 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A dense, nutritious bread for backpacking made with honey, molasses, eggs, wholewheat flour, and assorted dried fruit and nuts.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
In 1950, Gordon Herreid, the leader of the University of Alaska party to climb Mount Logan (the highest mountain in Canada), induced a baker in Fairbanks to make an indestructible high-energy bread for the group.