What does soul-cake mean?
Soul-cake means Alternative form of soul cake..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Alternative form of soul cake..
The griddle-cake mentioned by your correspondent as being made on All- hallows Eve is, I suppose, the same as the soul-cake.
The "Soul-cake," however, was rather a Halloween celebration than a Christmas-tide usage.
The older forms of request are interesting as they show pre-Reformation Catholic phraseology, for in return for the cakes, prayers were apparently offered for the donor's soul: "A soul-cake; a soul-cake, have mercy on all Christian souls, for a soul-cake."
I have been told that a century ago, in some parts of England, Wiltshire and Dorset were named, on or just after the feast of SS Simon and Jude, 28th October, there was made a kind of fairing, buns in the shape of men and women with currants for the eyes, and it seems quite possible that these were the traditional soul-cake.
Use soul-cake when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Soul-cake means Alternative form of soul cake..
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The griddle-cake mentioned by your correspondent as being made on All- hallows Eve is, I suppose, the same as the soul-cake.
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