ash cookie, noun phrase
- Origin:
- Calque formed on Afrikaans askoekie.
askoek sense 1.
1880 F.G. Browning Fighting & Farming 314Another way of making bread is what is called an ‘ash cookie’. It is something akin to an Australian ‘damper’...Having waited till the wood fire has burnt right down, the cookie is placed upon the ground, the ashes being cleared away and heaped upon it, when it is left till it becomes hard on top, when it is done.
1937 B.H. Dicke Bush Speaks 274The trader, with the exception of hunter’s ash-bread, roaster and ash-cookies, which were always a success, had himself an expert knowledge regarding bread-making.
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