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Furness Dialect Dictionary

Food

  • meeat - meat; victuals or food of any kind
  • collop - slice of dried or smoked meat
  • flick - flitch of bacon
  • sward - the rind of bacon
  • bæak (vr) - bake
  • breed - bread
  • læaf - a loaf
  • haver breead - oat cake
  • bannock - cake of oatmeal and treacle, seasoned with ginger
  • tommy - flat cakes made of meal from the hinderends of barley
  • wig - a small oblong cake, generally containing caraway seeds
  • tantatlin - a fancy tart
  • snap - a hard crisp gingerbread cake

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