cracknel
a hard, brittle cake or biscuit.
cracknels, small bits of fat pork fried crisp.
Origin of cracknel
1- Compare scrapple.
Words Nearby cracknel
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How to use cracknel in a sentence
On Sundays the mistress would give him a gingerbread or a cracknel, and amuse herself with his baby prattle.
Serge Panine, Complete | Georges Ohnet"Yes, it's 'licious," agreed Joan, with her mouth full of cracknel biscuit.
Two Little Travellers | Frances Browne ArthurThis is done to rid it of any bits of cracknel, etc., that may remain in the lard.
Home Pork Making | A. W. FultonAfter being pressed the cracknels are worked into a dough with corn meal and together made into cracknel bread.
Home Pork Making | A. W. FultonThe result—he lost by half a cracknel—was to cause him some temporary inconvenience, but he is now completely restored to health.
British Dictionary definitions for cracknel
/ (ˈkræknəl) /
a type of hard plain biscuit
(often plural) US and Canadian crisply fried bits of fat pork
Origin of cracknel
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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