bastable cakes
bastable cakes is the plural of bastable cake.
Meaning of bastable cake
Noun
bastable cake (plural bastable cakes)
- 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.1929, Shaw Desmond, Tales of the Little Sisters of Saint Francis, London: Grant Richards & Humphrey Toulmin at the Cayme Press, →OCLC, page 297
Questions about bastable cakes
- What is bastable cakes the plural of?
- Bastable cakes is the plural of bastable cake.
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