释义 |
ˈshort-cake [short a. 20 a.] A cake made short or crisp with butter or lard. The specific application varies according to locality; in some English districts the word means a cake of shortbread; elsewhere in England, and in the U.S., it is applied to a rich tea-cake, and to a cake of pastry enclosing a layer of fruit.
1594Good Huswife's Handmaid 52 To make short Cakes. [1598Shakes. Merry W. i. i. 211 Booke of Riddles? why did you not lend it to Alice Short-cake vpon Allhallowmas last.] 1804R. Anderson Cumbld. Ball. (1850) 90 There wur snaps, yell, nuts, gingerbread, shwort-keakes, and brandy. 1820Irving Leg. Sleepy Hollow Sketch Bk. (1821) II. 286 Sweet cakes and short cakes. 1826Mrs. Dods Cook & Housew. Man. 316 Derby Short-Cakes. 1829Frugal Housew. 61. 1884 ‘E. Garrett’ At Any Cost iii. 51 She had scarcely realized that there were so many jam-pots and tea-boxes and short-cakes to be seen together anywhere in the wide world. 1902Strand Mag. Jan. 69/2 We are promised to-day a Strawberry Shortcake. |