shanty cake

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a kind of unleavened bread made of coarse flour and resembling hardtack, used in earlier days in the bush cabins and camps.

Quotations

1849

The child was alive and well, and eating a piece of shanty cake (of coarse flour). . . .

1853

He made us extremely welcome, and gave us a hearty supper of pea-soup and shanty cake, and plenty of hot toddy. . . .