flannel cake
- noun
- /ˈflænəl keɪk/
- US
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tortita
- He flipped the flannel cake on the griddle until it was golden brown on both sides.
Examples
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For Sunday breakfast, Grandma always made a stack of flannel cakes with homemade syrup.
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The old cookbook includes a recipe for traditional flannel cakes popular in nineteenth-century America.
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I love having flannel cake for breakfast.
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Did you try the flannel cakes at the new café?
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For Sunday breakfast, Grandma always made a stack of flannel cakes with homemade syrup.
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He flipped the flannel cake on the griddle until it was golden brown on both sides.
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The old cookbook includes a recipe for traditional flannel cakes popular in nineteenth-century America.
Synonyms
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1.0
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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A thin flat cake you fry on both sides from batter, often eaten for breakfast
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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 flat cake you make from batter and fry on both sides in a pan
A flat round cake made from thin batter and cooked on both sides on a hot pan
A thin flat cake you make from batter and fry on both sides like a pancake
A thin flat cake cooked on a hot pan like a pancake
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The constituent words 'flannel' (a soft fabric) and 'cake' (a baked item) do not transparently combine to mean a thin fried batter like a pancake; the textile sense of 'flannel' gives no predictable culinary relation. This is a regional/archaic food term whose meaning is not deducible from its parts, so a B1 learner knowing the words would likely not infer the intended sense.
Etymology
Flannel cake may come from a simple kitchen trick: cooks used to wrap hot pancakes in a soft flannel cloth to keep them warm and moist. That's why the name came to mean a fried 'pancake' served at breakfast.