hard-bake
(ˈhɑːdbeɪk)
[f. hard a. + bake v. and n.]
A sweetmeat made of boiled sugar or treacle with blanched almonds; ‘almond toffee’.
| 1825 Hone Every-day Bk. I. 51 Show-glasses, containing..hard-bake, brandy-balls, and bull's-eyes. 1848 Thackeray Van. Fair lvi, A taste..for hardbake and raspberry tarts. |
| attrib. 1849 Thackeray Pendennis II. v, Brandy-ball and hardbake vendors. |