Excerpt from The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect Words Still in Use, or Known to Have Been in Use During the Last Two Hundred Years, Vol. 4
The meal, being first leavened, is poured on a bake-stone, and then scraped by a piece of flat wood called the machine. It makes the cake quite flat, ib.
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