Definition of Eccles cake

1. Noun. A flat round cake of sweetened pastry filled with dried fruit.


Definition of Eccles cake

1. Noun. A small, round, oven-baked cake made from a currant-based filling enclosed in puff pastry. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Eccles Cake

Ebonics
Ebony
Ebro
Ebro River
Ebstein's sign
Eburones
Eburophyton
Eburophyton austinae
Ecballium elaterium
Ecbatana
Ecc.
Eccl.
Eccles
Eccles.
Eccles cake (current term)
Eccles cakes
Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastical Latin
Ecclesiasticus
Eccleston
Ecclus.
Echelon
Echeneididae
Echeneis
Echeneis naucrates
Echidna
Echidnophaga
Echidnophaga gallinacea
Echinidan

Literary usage of Eccles cake

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Windsor Magazine (1905)
"The Eccles cake resembles the Banbury in flavour and composition. ... The one declares himself to be " The Old-Established Eccles cake Maker, Never Removed ..."

2. Handbook for Lancashire by John Murray (Firm) (1880)
"... these cakes are made, opposite to ( ach other, ne ir the ch. gt\tes. The sign of une reads : " Bradburn s. The Old Eccles cake-maker. Never removed. ..."

3. What is Good English? and Other Essays by Harry Thurston Peck (1899)
"I have often wished that I could eat some Hot Pot and an Eccles cake, but somehow my gastronomic courage has always failed me, blighted perhaps by the warm ..."

4. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1905)
"What has Rags had to say to-day ? " was one of her father's regular questions. She reported once : " He was sweet. I bought him an Eccles cake, and oh, Dad, ..."

5. Sketches of Lancashire Life and Localities by Edwin Waugh (1857)
"... Brown nuts, spice bread, and Eccles cake;t And sundry rustic pranks and rigs; To entertain the country folks; With old "Chum"j cracking nuts and jokes, ..."

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