Where does “tatty cake” come from?

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

tatty cake (English): A potato scone; made from flour and cooked...

Definitions

  1. A potato scone; made from flour and cooked...

Ancestry of “tatty 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 →