carcaken.
/ˈkɑːkeɪk/, U.S. /ˈkɑrˌkeɪk/, Scottish English /ˈkarkek/ Scottish.
A kind of small cake baked with eggs, and eaten on Fastern's Een (Shrove Tuesday) in some parts of Scotland. blood kercake n. a cake made of blood and oatmeal, formerly used in the south of Scotland. (Jamieson).
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1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. x. 278 The dame was still busy broiling car-cakes on the girdle.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 106 They arena that bad at girdles for carcakes neither.
1818 J. Hogg Brownie of Bodsbeck I. 277 Ye'll crush the poor auld body as braid as a blood-kercake.
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