Sc. Also in Jamieson care-, ker. [First part as in CARE-SUNDAY, Ger. Kar-freitag, etc.] A kind of small cake baked with eggs, and eaten on Fastern’s Een (Shrove Tuesday) in some parts of Scotland. Blood kercake: a cake made of blood and oatmeal, formerly used in the south of Scotland. (Jamieson).
1816. Scott, Antiq., xxvi. The dame was still busy broiling car-cakes on the girdle. Ibid. (1818), Hrt. Midl., xxix. They arena that bad at girdles for carcakes neither.
1818. Hogg, Brownie of Bodsbeck, I. 277 (Jam.). Ye’ll crush the poor auld body as braid as a blood-kercake.
