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parkin north. dial.|ˈpɑːkɪn|
Also -en, perkin.
[Origin unknown: perh. from proper name Perkin or Parkin.]
A kind of gingerbread or cake made of oatmeal and treacle.
1800D. Wordsworth Jrnl. 6 Nov. (1941) I. 71, I was baking bread, dinner, and parkins. 1828Craven Gloss. (ed. 2), Parkin, a cake made of treacle and oat meal, commonly called a treacle-parkin. 1884I. Banks Sybilla, etc. III. 145 Bribed by a cake of parkin from Dame Dorothy's capacious pockets. 1887Suppl. to Jamieson, Addenda, Perkins. 1896Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 404 The diet should be varied, and should include..whole-meal bread, ‘parkin’, gingerbread and molasses. 1968E. R. Buckler Ox Bells & Fireflies xix. 268 Two women had brought oatmeal parkins on cake plates that were exactly alike. 1973New Society 20 Dec. 709/3 The re-birth of interest in regional specialities like parkin (a rich, dark gingerbread, eaten with cheese). |