(Ireland) A round loaf of soda bread that is baked in a fire]].
Sister Cornelia was in the corner puffing and blowing like a porpoise as she made a new bastable cake, that she, bein' a County Waterford woman, like the "blower" itself, had introduced into them parts.
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