A type of baked cake or bread cooked on a griddle (also spelled 'girdle' in some dialects), a flat cooking surface rather than in an oven.
Compound of 'girdle' (variant of 'griddle,' a flat cooking surface) + 'cake.' The term reflects regional British and Irish cooking methods where flat cakes were cooked on iron griddles over fire.
The word shows how 'girdle' and 'griddle' are actually related—both refer to something that encircles or goes around, whether it's a belt or a round cooking surface!
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