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carcake Sc.|ˈkɑːkeɪk|
Also in Jamieson care-, ker-.
[First part as in Care Sunday, Ger. Kar-freitag, etc.]
A kind of small cake baked with eggs, and eaten on Fastern's Een (Shrove Tuesday) in some parts of Scotland. blood kercake: a cake made of blood and oatmeal, formerly used in the south of Scotland. (Jamieson).
1816Scott Antiq. xxvi, The dame was still busy broiling car-cakes on the girdle. 1818― Hrt. Midl. xxix, They arena that bad at girdles for carcakes neither. 1818Hogg Brownie of Bodsb. I. 277 (Jam.) Ye'll crush the poor auld body as braid as a blood-kercake. |