bastable cake
noun/ˈbæstəbl ˌkeɪk/UK/ˈbæstəb(ə)l ˌkeɪk/US
Etymology
From bastable (“earthenware or (later) cast-iron pot with three short legs and a lid, used for baking over a fire”) + cake.
Definitions
A round loaf of soda bread that is baked in a bastable (“an earthenware or cast-iron pot…
A round loaf of soda bread that is baked in a bastable (“an earthenware or cast-iron pot used for baking over a fire”).
- Sister Cornelia was in the corner puffing and blowing like a porpoise as she made a new bastable cake, that she, bein' a County Waterford woman, like the "blower" itself, had introduced into them parts.
- There was no show but the heap of sweet cake, not to mention all the shop bread, he brought from town. Bastable cakes would be too common for the likes of such a grand dance, a mhic ó! There was enough there to feed half the parish.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA