seedcake

• seed-cake, seed cake

From seed +‎ cake.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsidˌkeɪk/

seedcake (countable and uncountable, plural seedcakes)

1. The residue of pressing oil from seeds.
2. A sweet cake, cookie or cracker containing aromatic seeds, especially caraway.
   • 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:

     Remember thou therefore, though I do it not,
     The seed-cake, the pasties, and furmenty pot

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[8]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     Softly she gave me in my mouth the seedcake warm and chewed. Mawkish pulp her mouth had mumbled sweetsour of her spittle. Joy: I ate it: joy.

• “seedcake”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.