DCHP-1 Online
shanty cake Obs. 
a kind of unleavened bread made of coarse flour and resembling hardtack, used in earlier days in the bush cabins and camps.
See also: shanty biscuit shanty loaf
- 1849 The child was alive and well, and eating a piece of shanty cake (of coarse flour). . . .
- 1853 He made us extremely welcome, and gave us a hearty supper of pea-soup and shanty cake, and plenty of hot toddy. . . .
- 1849 The child was alive and well, and eating a piece of shanty cake (of coarse flour). . . .