Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cake of sweetened bread formerly distributed at church doors on All Souls' day. See
soul-paper .
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The name "soul-cake" of course suggests that the cakes were in some way associated with the departed, whether given as a reward for prayers for souls in Purgatory, or as a charity for the benefit of the "poor souls," or baked that the dead might feast upon them. [
Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles
qms commented on the word soul-cake
Our sins do a burdensome toll take.
While prayer and works on the whole make
Our vile purgatory
A less lengthy story
The ticket to heaven's the soul-cake.
Compare dumb-cake.
November 2, 2016