spice-caken.
A cake seasoned with spice; dialect, a rich currant-cake. Also in combinations.
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spice-cake1530
sugar-cake1600
plum cake1606
butter cake1616
pound cake1743
black cake1823
Dundee cake1836
gâteau1845
fat-rascal1868
Dundee1920
Lane cake1921
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 274/1 Spycecake, gasteau.
1575 J. Awdely Fraternitye of Vacabondes (new ed.) sig. B3v Such knaues commonly vse to buy Spicecakes, Apples, or other trifles.
1605 London Prodigall v. i I haue liued since yesterday two a clocke of a spice-cake I had at a buriall.
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck at Kruydt A Spice-cake-baker.
1790 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2) Suppl. Spice-cake, plumb-cake.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Spice-cake, a cake full of currants.
1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood 417 Spice-cake, Christmas fare. Currants, candied lemon, and raisins, hold a conspicuous part in the manufacture of this article [etc.].
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