Cake, a fine sort of bread, which has received this denomination, on account of its flat and round figure.

There are various compositions under the name of cakes; as seed-cakes made of flour, butter, cream, sugar, coriander, and carraway seeds, mace, and other spices ; plum-cakes, cheese-cakes, sugar-cakes, etc. which are so well known as to render any description of them unnecessary. Gat-cukes, which are made in most parts of the country, but particularly in Yorkshire, and in Scotland, consist of tine oaten flour, either with or without yeast, roiled thin, and baked in a warm oven, or over a slow fire. Rose-cakes, are the leaves of roses dried and pressed into a mass, and sold in the shops for epithems.