buckwheat cake

American  

noun

1. a pancake made of buckwheat flour.

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Etymology

Origin of buckwheat cake

An Americanism dating back to 1740–50

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buckwheat cake

Seven Autopsies on a Battlefield of Mangled Reputations On his first encounter with the buckwheat cake Arnold Bennett is supposed to have remarked: "I say, it isn't half so rotten as it looks!"

From Time Magazine Archive

The President reciprocated with the tender of a buckwheat cake.

From Time Magazine Archive

Jack," said Henry Burns, as he followed his companion across the planking of the flume, "you look like an underdone buckwheat cake.

From The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill by Smith, Ruel Perley

The invalid next concluded to try a cup of coffee, to counteract, as he said, any bad effects that might arise from the tea; and he ventured, also, on some well-buttered buckwheat cake and honey.

From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Leslie, Eliza

Yet how much that is not obvious to the careless ear can be put into "Will you have a buckwheat cake, Mr. Kendall?" or "May I give you a helping of the syrup, Miss Brown?"

From Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters by Phillips, Henry Wallace