Crossword clues for seedcake
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Seedcake \Seed"cake`\, n.
A sweet cake or cooky containing aromatic seeds, as caraway.
--Tusser.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 residue of pressing oil from seeds. 2 A sweet cake or cookie containing aromatic seeds, such as caraway. n. 1 residue of pressing oil from seeds. 2 A sweet cake or cookie containing aromatic seeds, such as caraway.
WordNet
n. a sweet cake flavored with sesame or caraway seeds and lemon [syn: seed cake]
Usage examples of "seedcake".
I concentrated on the tea, cucumber sandwiches, and seedcake, suppressing wistful thoughts about a pub.
She rapidly secreted her seedcake at the top of her collection basket, determined to preserve her forbidden morning meal.
Mareka remembered the seedcake that she had stashed inside the container.
After a month she brought gifts for the old woman: hair ribbons, and a seedcake, and a black rooster.
The guard also gave me a slice of fragrant seedcake, but I threw that on the floor.
No one could do more than pick at this dish, or the course of sweets that followed: seedcake, and sticky-sweet dumplings in syrup, filled with a thick red paste.
Cox sighed, and, leaving the room, returned with a bottle of wine which was port to the look and red-currant to the taste, and a seedcake of formidable appearance.
The old housekeeper stood at the buffet, cutting up seedcake, and pouring out elder wine, which was soon passed round to the company.
The seedcakes had been weighed, decked with a handful of Christmas greens, and placed in the basket, and Kitty, after a few kind words to the old Dutch market-woman, made her way swiftly through the crowd and gained the street.
There were pies and puddings, flans and flummeries, saffron seedcakes, cloudy white bread and soft yellow butter, raspberries, pears, strawberries and honeyed figs, creamy curd, truffles, and crystal goblets encircling dark wine.
Nobody sighed for the gaieties and advantages of a great city when, these concerts being over, Lyddy would pass crisp seedcakes and raspberry shrub, doughnuts and cider, or hot popped corn and molasses candy.
She managed to wash up the dishes and the first soup pot, but ran out of energy, and took two seedcakes and a mug of cider up to the loft where she snuggled into her bed, leaving them on the little table beside the bed for a quick bite if someone pulled her out in the middle of the night.
The only thing she’d had all day was those seedcakes and a couple of bites of soup in between patients, and she was so hungry she was close to being nauseated.