单词 | kankie |
释义 | kankien. Native African bread made from maize-flour. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > [noun] > maize bread pone1634 Indian bread1654 maize bread1663 kankie1735 hoecake1745 corn-bread1775 pone breadc1785 crackling-bread1834 Awendaw1847 piki1859 1735 J. Atkins Voy. Guinea 90 Salary sufficient to buy Canky, Palm-Oil, and a little Fish to keep them from starving. 1863 R. F. Burton Wanderings W. Afr. II. ix. 144 Kankie is native bread; the flour..must be manipulated till it becomes snowy white; after various complicated operations..it is boiled or roasted and packed in plantain leaves. 1887 C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 448 On the Gold Coast the natives..make it into a kind of bread resembling the kankie. 1887 C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 451 Converted by the Fantes into kankie-cakes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1735 |
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