Where does “tatty cake” come from?

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

tatty cake (Scots): Alternative spelling of tattie cake

Definitions

  1. Alternative spelling of tattie cake

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 →