Where does “tattie cake” come from?

tattie cake (English) comes from Scots tattie cake, from Scots tattie, from Scots pitattie — potato.

tattie cake (English): Alternative spelling of tatty cake

Definitions

  1. Alternative spelling of tatty cake

Ancestry of “tattie cake”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Scotstattie caketatty scone, the potato scone
2ScotstattieDiminutive of pitattie
3Scotspitattiepotato
Every word from Scots pitattie →Every word from Scots tattie →Every word from Scots tattie cake →
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