bannock

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

(Gaelic, bonnach. Irish, boinneag.) In Scotland, a cake of oatmeal baked on an iron plate.


Behind the door a bag of meal;

And in the kist was plenty

Of good hard cakes his mither bakes;

And bannocks were nae scanty.--Scotch Songs, II. 71.

In New England, cakes of Indian meal, fried in lard, are called bannocks.

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