A heavy pudding or cake made with flour, fat pork and molasses. It started as food for fishermen and men in the woods, and now we have it for dessert.
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Where the word comes from
The Dictionary of Newfoundland English describes it as a pudding, cake or pancake first made by fishermen and woodsmen, with flour and fat pork, boiled, baked or fried, now usually served as dessert. Its supplement quotes a 1985 description of a pork and molasses cake that could be baked, fried or boiled.
