ring-cake

noun

A cake having a ring baked inside it, with slices sold as a form of lottery. Once a common feature of church fairs.

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Meanings

nounring-cake (plural ring-cakes)

plural ring-cakes

  1. USA cake having a ring baked inside it, with slices sold as a form of lottery. Once a common feature of church fairs.

    Then pointing successively to the lottery-table, grab-box, ring-cake, and cigars, he continued[…]

    1870, Jeremiah N. Thomas, “Jonadab Cleaver's Experiment; Or, the Last Church Fair at Rutway”, in Sabbath at Home
    1 more example

    Then there is the church fair with its grab-bag having a silver pencil, and its ring-cake from which some one will get a gold ring for five cents.

    1887, “The Book World”, in The Sunday-school World
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