[Sca-cooks] OOP: Kettle cakes

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Alex Clark:
>I've found a few references (in _Adam Bede_ by George Eliot) to 
>something called a kettle-cake. This term might be the next closest 
>thing to Rowling's "Cauldron Cake". But I haven't found any recipes. 
>Does anyone happen to know where there's a recipe for kettle-cake? 
>It seems to be an archaism, so perhaps it might have been in 
>cookbooks of the 18th or 19th century.

George Eliot (I forget her real name, and whenever I try to think of 
it all I can remember is Edmund Blackadder's line about Jane Austen 
being a huge Yorkshireman with a beard you could hide a badger in) 
was a contemporary of people like Austen and Shelley (early 19th 
century C.E. -- ya know: Regency), growing up in Warwickshire, which 
is in the West Midlands of England. It's possible this is a regional 
thing that never made it into a published cookbook.

I wonder if it'd turn out to be some kind of cloutie dumpling type 
thing. There's nothing in Hannah Glasse; maybe Eliza Action? Or is 
she too late? (Yes, I'm clutching at straws.)

Adamantius