Also 6 spyce-, spise-. [SPICE sb.] A cake seasoned with spice; dial., a rich currant-cake. Also Comb.
1530. Palsgr., 274/1. Spycecake, gasteau.
1561. Awdelay, Frat. Vacab., 12. Such knaves commonly vse to buy Spice-cakes, Apples, or other trifles.
1605. London Prodigall, V. i. F 3. I haue liued since yesterday two a clocke, of a Spice-cake I had at a buriall.
1648. Hexham, II. s.v. Kruydt, A Spice-cake-baker.
1790. Grose, Prov. Gloss. (ed. 2), Suppl., Spice-cake, plumb-cake.
1825. Brockett, N. C. Gloss., Spice-cake, a cake full of currants.
1862. C. C. Robinson, Dial. Leeds, 417. Spice-cake. Christmas fare. Currants, candied lemon, and raisins, hold a conspicuous part in the manufacture of this article [etc.].
