| 释义 |
riddle-bread, -cake U.S. and north. dial.
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1674Ray N.C. Words s.v. Bannock, Riddle-cakes, thick Sour-cakes, from which differs little that which they call Hand-hoven Bread, having but little leaven, and being kneaded stiffer. 1797Monthly Mag. III. 33/1 The bread used is made of oatmeal, and by some is called riddle bread. It is slightly baked in thick cakes, being previously leavened. 1828Carr Craven Gloss., Riddle-bread, oat cake which is riddled or shaken on a chequered board, before it is thrown on an iron plate over the fire, called a bakestone. 1915Dialect Notes IV. 240 Riddle cakes, griddle cakes. 1969E. H. Pinto Treen 141 In Scotland and North-east England, oatbread was often known as haver or riddle cake and in North-west England as haverbread or riddlebread. |