A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Fowat, n. [F. fouace (also obs. fouache) a cake baked in the ashes, perh. taken as a plural. In later dial. as fouat, ‘a cake baked with butter and currants’ (Jam.).] A cake or bun differing from a fadge. —1529 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 17.
The fowattis of Mussilburgh and vtheris sauld … apone the merket dayis Ib.
At na hukstar sell nor top ony of the saidis fagis nor fowattis within thar housis 1601 Ib. v. 280.
The mayneschottis of flour, fadges, fowattis, fardellis, reid bapis, … and siclyk breid
