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Cake
        Cakes made of wheat or barley were offered in the temple. They
        were salted, but unleavened (Ex. 29:2; Lev. 2:4). In idolatrous
        worship thin cakes or wafers were offered "to the queen of
        heaven" (Jer. 7:18; 44:19).
        Pancakes are described in 2 Sam. 13:8, 9. Cakes mingled with
        oil and baked in the oven are mentioned in Lev. 2:4, and "wafers
        unleavened anointed with oil," in Ex. 29:2; Lev. 8:26; 1 Chr.
        23:29. "Cracknels," a kind of crisp cakes, were among the things
        Jeroboam directed his wife to take with her when she went to
        consult Ahijah the prophet at Shiloh (1 Kings 14:3). Such hard
        cakes were carried by the Gibeonites when they came to Joshua
        (9:5, 12). They described their bread as "mouldy;" but the
        Hebrew word _nikuddim_, here used, ought rather to be rendered
        "hard as biscuit." It is rendered "cracknels" in 1 Kings 14:3.
        The ordinary bread, when kept for a few days, became dry and
        excessively hard. The Gibeonites pointed to this hardness of
        their bread as an evidence that they had come a long journey.
        We read also of honey-cakes (Ex. 16:31), "cakes of figs" (1
        Sam. 25:18), "cake" as denoting a whole piece of bread (1 Kings
        17:12), and "a [round] cake of barley bread" (Judg. 7:13). In
        Lev. 2 is a list of the different kinds of bread and cakes which
        were fit for offerings.
Bibliography Information
Easton, Matthew George. M.A., D.D., "Definition for 'Cake' Eastons Bible Dictionary".
bible-history.com - Eastons; 1897.

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