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pikelet
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pikelet [ˈpaɪklɪt]
n
(Cookery) a dialect word for a crumpet [1]
[from Welsh bara pyglyd pitchy bread]


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I T brought back memories to read in Laura Davis's column in Wednesday's Daily Post that pikelets are back on the shelves of supermarkets," writes Daily Post reader Gemma Stevens.
Pikelets were sometimes bought from a man who walked the streets shouting his wares with a baker's tray perched on his head.
She imagined him telling his own children about the wonderful snowfall the year of his arrival in New Zealand, and how he and the neighbourhood kids ran wild all day, coming inside only briefly, to eat the hot pikelets his friends' mother had whipped up.
 
 
 
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