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Definition of Flannel-cake
1. Noun. A flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle.
Generic synonyms: Cake
Specialized synonyms: Buckwheat Cake, Buttermilk Pancake, Blini, Bliny, Blintz, Blintze, Crape, Crepe, French Pancake, German Pancake, Pfannkuchen, Latke, Potato Pancake, Tortilla
Definition of Flannel-cake
1. Adjective. (form of Attributive form flannel cake), ''noun''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flannel-cake
Literary usage of Flannel-cake
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pumpkin Husks by Hustin Agnew (1908)
"All I got was one flannel cake that was baked over a bucket of brimstone by a
... I had eaten about half of my flannel cake when the landlord woke me up, ..."
2. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"Flannel cake. A soft thin cake usually eaten with molasses. 1792 Naples biscuits,
crackers, buns, and flannel-cakes. ..."
3. One Thousand Gems: Striking Passages, Incidents and Illustrations by Thomas De Witt Talmage, William Henry Larrabee (1873)
"There is the Indian cake, and the flannel cake, and the buckwheat cake. Now Ephraim
was a cake not turned. It is an awful thing not to be turned. ..."
4. Food and Flavor: A Gastronomic Guide to Health and Good Living by Henry Theophilus Finck (1913)
"I have never eaten any woolen stuff, but I imagine it might taste a good deal
like the average "flannel" cake, though it would be much lighter. ..."
5. Five years within the Golden gate by Isabelle Saxon (1868)
"Corn-batter cakes are prepared from the flour of the Indian corn, and the flannel
cake resembles the Shropshire ..."
6. Studying the Short-story: Sixteen Short-story Classics, with Introductions by Joseph Berg Esenwein (1918)
"There was a town down there, as flat as a flannel-cake, and called Summit, of
course. It contained inhabitants of as ..."
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