A cake baked in the ashes.
1839. Fellows whose richest loaf is corn ash-cake, and who use jerked beef and venison with their tea.—Letter from Illinois: The Jeffersonian, Jan. 26, p. 399.
1844. [A public dinner was given at Jackson, Tenn., in 1840.] At this dinner, a large ash-cake was baked, containing about three bushels of corn meal. This was put on the table, and a hickory bush stuck in the centre of it, and three plates put on the ash-cake; and out of these plates ate General Jackson, Felix Grundy, and James K. Polk.—Mr. Hardin of Illinois, House of Representatives, March 21: Congressional Globe, p. 631, Appendix.
1861. Not even a guard being left to keep the ash-cakes from stray dogs.—Knickerbocker Mag., lvii. 624 (June).
