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petticoat tails Sc.
[Origin uncertain: see quot. 1825.]
‘The name given to a species of cake baked with butter, used as tea-bread’ (Jamieson 1825).
a1800Collect. Receipts 3 (Jam.) For Petticoat tails, take the same proportion of butter as for Short Bread. 1818Scott Br. Lamm. xxvi, Never had there been..such making of car-cakes and sweet scones, Selkirk bannocks, cookies, and petticoat-tails—delicacies little known to the present generation. 1825Jamieson s.v., The general idea is, that this kind of cake is denominated from its resemblance to a section of a petticoat. For a circular cake, when a smaller circle has been taken out of the middle, is divided into eight quarters. But a literary friend has suggested that the term has probably a French origin, q. petit gasteau, a little cake. The old form of this word is petit gastel. 1870Ramsay Remin. vi. (ed. 18) 247. 1887 Pall Mall G. 27 Dec. 5/2 Yorkshire Parkin, Simnel cake, and Scotch petticoat tails are to be found among a host of local delicacies. |