oatmeal cake

oatmeal cake (plural oatmeal cakes)

1. An oatcake (type of biscuit made with oatmeal).
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 165:

     So in the middle of the night, when all were asleep, she took the cloth from the lad, and put another one in its stead, just like the one he had got from the north wind, but her cloth couldn't, of course, serve up as much as an oatmeal cake.