carcake Sc.
(ˈkɑːkeɪk)
Also in Jamieson care-, ker-.
[First part as in Care Sunday, Ger. Kar-freitag, etc.]
A kind of small cake baked with eggs, and eaten on Fastern's Een (Shrove Tuesday) in some parts of Scotland. blood kercake: a cake made of blood and oatmeal, formerly used in the south of Scotland. (Jamieson).
| 1816 Scott Antiq. xxvi, The dame was still busy broiling car-cakes on the girdle. 1818 ― Hrt. Midl. xxix, They arena that bad at girdles for carcakes neither. 1818 Hogg Brownie of Bodsb. I. 277 (Jam.) Ye'll crush the poor auld body as braid as a blood-kercake. |