ash cake

1. 1.

   corn bread wrapped in cabbage leaves and baked in hot ashes (southern)

   Synonymsashcakecorn tash

   Broadercornbread

Questions about ash cake

What does ash cake mean?

ash cake means "corn bread wrapped in cabbage leaves and baked in hot ashes (southern)".

What is another word for ash cake?

Close synonyms include ashcake, corn tash. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ash cake a common word?

ash cake is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.