tharf-caken.
/ˈθɑːfkeɪk/ Now dialect.
A cake of unleavened bread; now spec. a flat circular cake of oat-, rye-, or barley-meal, unleavened, and sometimes flavoured with butter and treacle; in the latter case = parkin n.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > loaf > [noun] > flat cake of bread
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1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. vii. 269 A þerf Cake, And a lof of Benes and Bren I-Bake for my Children.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 635 Abraham..Þrwe þryftyly þer-on þo þre þerue kakez.
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Two Mice l. 283 in Poems (1981) 14 Thraf caikkis als I trow scho spairit nocht.
1560 Bp. J. Pilkington Aggeus the Prophete (1562) 92 Elias, fleeing from Jezebel, founde a therfe cake baked in the asshes.
a1661 W. Brereton Trav. (1844) 122 The entertainment we accepted..was Tharck-cakes, two eggs, and some dried fish buttered.
1691 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) at Bannock Tharcakes,..cakes made of oat-meal,..and fair water, without yeast, or leaven, and so baked.
?1748 ‘T. Bobbin’ View Lancs. Dial. (ed. 2) 23 'Twur os thodd'n os o Thar-cake.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Thauf-cake.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Thar~cake, a heavy, unleavened cake.
1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield (at cited word) A year or two ago I noticed that a shop-keeper..advertised tharf-cake for sale... They call it parkin instead of using the old word.
1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Tharf-kyek, Thaaf-keahyk, Thaf-kyek, Tharth-kyek, Thaugh-cyek, Tharfy.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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