TEACAKE

Teacake

A teacake in England is a light yeast-based sweet bun containing dried fruit, typically served toasted and buttered. In the U.S. tea cakes can be cookies or small cakes. And in Sweden it is a sweetened wheat soda bread served with butter, jam and often cheese. In India and Australia a teacake is more like a sponge cake. Tea refers to the popular beverage which these baked goods are an accompaniment to.

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teacake

Noun

  1. A flat, round bread bun, usually containing currants, sultanas or peel and often served toasted and buttered with tea.
  2. A traditional cookie.
  3. A sweet cake, sometimes sprinkled with cinnamon and caster sugar, often served warm.


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