buckwheat cake

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buck′wheat cake`

a pancake made with buckwheat flour.

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buckwheat cake - a pancake made with buckwheat flour

battercake, flannel cake, flannel-cake, flapcake, flapjack, hot cake, hotcake, pancake, griddlecake - a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle

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I'll bet she meets us at the door of Heaven with a big pitcher of water, and a lot of buckwheat cakes, hot, and toasted on both sides, like Bob and me was fond of.

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Other options available were Christmas spiced braised beef in giant Yorkshire pudding, or cheese and celeriac buckwheat cake with mushroom sauce.

Festive feast with a twist; tastetest

When they suggest, for instance, that the reference in "Dixie" to buckwheat cakes may be a memory of the flapjacks served in taverns on the National Road Ellen Snowden traveled from Maryland to Ohio, they overlook more obvious and immediate sources such as "de buckwheat cake was in her mouf" in "Oh