askoek, noun
- Forms:
- Formerly also aschkoek, asch-kook.
- Plurals:
- unchanged.
- Origin:
- AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, as ash + koek cake.
1. A dough-cake baked in embers; ash cake sense 1; ash cookie; roaster-cake sense a; roosterkoek sense b. Cf. cookie, stormjaer sense 1.
1900 F.R.M. Cleaver in M.M. Cleaver Young S. Afr. (1913) 54I have re-acquired all my old veld craft, and know the exact turn to which to bake a stormjager or aschkoek.
1986 M. Van Wyk Cooking the S. Afr. Way 97Askoek. Use the same dough, but bake directly on the coals or in the ashes.
2. figurative. rare. In the dimunitive form askoekie: a flat river-stone resembling an ash-cake; ash cake sense 2.
1950 E. Rosenthal Here Are Diamonds 197A quaint word of Afrikaans origin, which English-speaking diggers also came to employ, was derived from the fact that the flat water-worn stones bore a likeness to a certain kind of Boer pastry. They were (and are) known as ‘askoekies’ or ‘ash-cakes’.
A dough-cake baked in embers; ash cake sense 1; ash cookie; roaster-cake sense a; roosterkoek sense b.
In the dimunitive form askoekie:a flat river-stone resembling an ash-cake; ash cake sense 2.
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