sally lunn

• POS: Noun Phrase
• HYPHEN: Sal=ly Lunn

CIDE DICTIONARY

sally lunn,  [From a woman, Sally Lunn, who is said to have first made the cakes, and sold them in the streets of Bath, Eng.].

 A tea cake slighty sweetened, and raised with yeast, baked in the form of biscuits or in a thin loaf, and eaten hot with butter.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

sally lunn, n. Brit. a sweet light teacake, properly served hot.

Etymology

perh. f. the name of a woman selling them at Bath c.1800