shortcaken.
A cake made short or crisp with butter or lard. The specific application varies according to locality; in some English districts the word means a cake of shortbread; elsewhere in England, and in the U.S., it is applied to a rich teacake, and to a cake of pastry enclosing a layer of fruit.
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1594 Good Huswifes Handmaide 52 To make short Cakes.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) i. i. 187 Booke of Riddles? why did you not lend it to Alice Short-cake vpon Alhallowmas last. View more context for this quotation]
1804 R. Anderson et al. Ballads in Cumberland Dial. (1850) 90 There wur snaps, yell, nuts, gingerbread, shwort-keakes, and brandy.
1820 W. Irving Legend Sleepy Hollow in Sketch Bk. vi. 92 Sweet cakes and short cakes.
1826 ‘M. Dods’ Cook & Housewife's Man. ii. xi. 316 Derby Short-Cakes.
1829 Frugal Housewife 61.
1884 ‘E. Garrett’ At Any Cost iii. 51 She had scarcely realized that there were so many jam-pots and tea-boxes and short-cakes to be seen together anywhere in the wide world.
1902 Strand Mag. Jan. 69/2 We are promised to-day a Strawberry Shortcake.
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