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spice-cake
Also 6 spyce-, spise-.
[spice n.]
A cake seasoned with spice; dial., a rich currant-cake. Also Comb.
1530Palsgr. 274/1 Spycecake, gasteau. 1561J. Awdelay Frat. Vacab. 12 Such knaves commonly vse to buy Spice-cakes, Apples, or other trifles. 1605London Prodigal v. i, I haue liued since yesterday two a clocke of a spice-cake I had at a buriall. 1648Hexham ii. s.v. Kruydt, A Spice-cake-baker. 1790Grose Prov. Gloss. (ed. 2) Suppl., Spice-cake, plumb-cake. 1825Brockett N.C. Gloss., Spice-cake, a cake full of currants. 1862C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds 417 Spice-cake, Christmas fare. Currants, candied lemon, and raisins, hold a conspicuous part in the manufacture of this article [etc.]. |