teacake
The English word “teacake” has 9 meanings listed here.
noun
- A flat, round bread bun, usually containing currants, sultanas or peel and often served toasted and buttered with tea.
- A bread roll without fruit; a barm.
- A snack consisting of shortbread or wafer topped with meringue or marshmallow, coated in chocolate.
- A traditional type of dense, large cookie, typically hard-baked, not particularly sweet, and with few extra fillings.
- A small delicate cake or pastry; a petit four.
- A sweet cake similar to pound cake, sometimes sprinkled with cinnamon and caster sugar, often served warm.
- A cake flavoured with tea.
- A fruit cake similar to a barmbrack (but often without yeast) flavoured with tea and whiskey, especially associated with Halloween.
- A brick of dried tea.
Etymology
From tea + cake.
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