journey cake
- noun
- /ˈdʒɜrni keɪk/
- Archaic
:
torta de maíz
- Grandma served hot journey cake with maple syrup on cold winter mornings.
Examples
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On our hiking trip, we made journey cake for a quick and hearty breakfast.
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Locals claim their journey cake recipe has been handed down for generations.
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I made a delicious journey cake for breakfast.
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Have you ever tried journey cakes?
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On our camping trip, we enjoyed hot journey cake cooked over the fire.
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For Sunday brunch, she prepared fluffy journey cake topped with fresh berries.
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Every family gathering features journey cake as a beloved side dish.
Synonyms
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1.0
A thin, flat fried cake made from batter often eaten for breakfast
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8.0
A flat cornmeal cake cooked like a pancake on a griddle
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2.0
A flat food like a pancake made from cornmeal and cooked on a pan
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3.9
A flat round cake like a pancake cooked on a hot griddle
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9.1
A flat cornbread pancake cooked on a griddle and often eaten for breakfast in New England
A small flat cake made from ground corn, usually fried or baked and served as a side
Surface Forms
Morphology
journey + cake
The compound 'journey cake' can be partially interpreted from its parts — a 'cake' associated with a 'journey' (e.g., food for travel) — so a learner might guess it is some kind of travelable or portable cake. However, the specific culinary sense (a cornbread/pancake-style griddle bread popular in New England) is regional and lexicalized and not fully predictable from the constituents, so prior exposure is needed to reach the precise meaning.
Etymology
Journey cake comes from a simple cake people took on a journey. It was a flat cornbread cooked on a griddle that kept well and was easy to eat while traveling, so the name now means this kind of cornbread.