a cake consisting of a pastry base filled with currants, raisins, candied peel, and sugar, with a crisscross pattern on the top
Banbury cake in American English
noun
a small, oval pastry containing currants, candied peel, honey, spices, etc., usually with three parallel cuts across the top
Also called: Banbury bun
Word origin
[1605–15; named after banbury, where it was made]This word is first recorded in the period 1605–15. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: classic, displacement, gothic, package, surface