flannel-cake
- noun
- Archaic
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tortita
- She made a stack of flannel-cakes for breakfast, serving them with honey and butter.
Examples
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The old cookbook includes a recipe for traditional flannel-cake using simple ingredients.
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Many families have their own way of flipping flannel-cakes to make sure they're golden on both sides.
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I made a delicious flannel-cake for breakfast.
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Have you ever tried a flannel-cake?
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She made a stack of flannel-cakes for breakfast, serving them with honey and butter.
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Many families have their own way of flipping flannel-cakes to make sure they're golden on both sides.
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The old cookbook includes a recipe for traditional flannel-cake using simple ingredients.
Synonyms
316
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A thin, flat fried cake made from batter often eaten for breakfast
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A thin round cake made from batter and cooked on a pan, often served for breakfast
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1.6
A thin flat cake you fry on both sides from batter, often eaten for breakfast
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A light, fluffy pancake made with buttermilk
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3.9
A flat round cake like a pancake cooked on a hot griddle
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A thin, flat cake made from buckwheat flour often eaten for breakfast
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A thin pancake made with buckwheat flour often served for breakfast
A thin pancake fried on both sides and often served for breakfast
A thin flat cake you make from batter and fry on both sides in a pan
A thin flat cake you make from batter and fry on both sides like a pancake
A flat round cake made from thin batter and cooked on both sides on a hot pan
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Etymology
Flannel-cake comes from flannel ('soft cloth') and cake, and a helpful idea is that people either wrapped thin pancakes in a flannel to keep them warm or thought the cakes were soft like the cloth. So a flannel-cake is a thin, flat 'pancake' cooked on a griddle.