[Sca-cooks] Cake definition was a digest

[Claire Clarke]

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Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 10:03:26 -0500
From: Johnna Holloway <johnnae at mac.com>
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>So cake is much older.
>Johnnae

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*slaps head*
Of course it is, and now I am remembering seeing plenty of instances of
things like 'make a thin cake of dough' and so on. But not recipes that say
'to make a cake', not until later. 
The etymology and usage seems to suggest that the mediaeval English at least
thought of a cake as a flat thing. 

Angharad