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Definition of Ash cake
1. Noun. Corn bread wrapped in cabbage leaves and baked in hot ashes (southern).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ash Cake
Literary usage of Ash cake
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: From 1817-1882 by Frederick Douglass, John Lobb (1882)
"... not a master—Sandy's hospitality—The ash-cake supper—Interview with Sandy—His
advice—Sandy a conjurer as well as a Christian—The magic root—Strange ..."
2. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"Ash-cake. A cake baked in the ashes. 1839 Fellows whose richest loaf is corn ash-cake
... At this dinner, a large ash-cake was baked, containing about three ..."
3. ...The American Boys' Handybook of Camp-lore and Woodcraft by Daniel Carter Beard (1920)
"CHAPTER VI CAMP FOOD HOW TO MAKE ash cake, PONE, CORN DODGERS, FLAPJACKS, JOHNNY-CAKE,
... ash cake ..."
4. Virginia Cookery-book by Mary Stuart Smith (1912)
"Muffins. — Fly-a ways, or Souffle Biscuits.—Corn Batter Cakes.— Corn Dodgers.—Ash
Cake.—Every-day Batter Bread.—Buttered Federal Loaf, for Tea. ..."
5. Good Things: Ethical Recipes for Feast Days and Other Days, with Graces for by Isabel Goodhue (1911)
"... ash cake THE usual every-day cakes baked in the ashes of sorrow. Let all the
home workers attend to them with the hand of love that the ashes may not ..."
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